Items | Mandarin Mansion

Rare Vietnamese pellet bow set

An exceedingly rare set with fine mother of pearl inlaid string board

€6000,-
SE Asian dha with "Musashi tsuba"

In excavated condition, with copper alloy hilt.

€650,-
Unusual Vietnamese trường đao

With forward swept iron guard and swollen grip.

€1300,-
Old Hanuman keris holder

A charming Balinese keris holder in the form of Hanuman, the brave monkey king.

Price on request
Large southern silver gilt katar

Its hilt overlaid with thick silver, then fire-gilt.

€2400,-
Fine Kutch horse head shamshir

The style typical of Kutch, the execution far above what is normally seen on work from that area.

Price on request
Flintlock lance

A what? Yes exactly. An extremely rare piece, the only example I am aware of in published collections at least.

€7500,-
Silver chevron katar

All the designs being true inlay, with almost no losses.

€3800,-
Indian jade hilted dagger

With wootz blade and the jade hilt set with small rubies.

€5400,-
Gilt-copper hilted kard

Fine Indian kard with gilt copper alloy hilt, decorated with chiseled flowers.

€2200,-
Marwari talwar with 1857 dated hilt

The hilt is in the typical Marwari Rajput style, made by Ram Namar in 1857 A.D.

€2200,-
Japanese inspired Asian sword

Inspired by uchigatana brought into Vietnam by Japanese refugees who settled along the coast.

€1300,-
Very good Mindan dha

With silver overlay on iron even continued on its hilt.

€2500,-
Mindan Ramayana dha

Fine Mindan dha with a scene from the Ramayana on its blade.

€2000,-
Mindan dha

Fine silver overlaid dha made in Mindan village, south of Mandalay, gained fame in the 19th century.

€1200,-
A plain dha

Of a type likely produced by the Shan people and traded widely in the region.

€450,-
Bali straight keris

With fine flaming pamor blade and notched "cekah redut" hilt.

€2000,-
European sword blade keris

In the style of a Malay keris panjang.

€1750,-
Southern katar with yali langets

Of a style often associated with Tanjore, the seat of the Vijayanagara empire.

€1650,-
Rare Santali shield

Peculiar shield with catching hook, used by the Santali people of Bengal.

€2000,-
Indian Antelope Axe

An enigmatic type of axe, this one probably from tribal north India.

€900,-
Sinhalese pihiya

A beautiful black coral hilted example, made in the King's workshops.

€1800,-
Dha with story of Maung Tin

Of the silver overlaid type made in Mindan, with an unusual story on the blade.

€4000,-
Parang latok

A curious slashing weapon from northern Borneo.

€2800,-
Silver hilted keris coteng

A textbook example of this rare and early type of keris.

€3200,-
Rare bifurcated Khond axe

Very rare subtype of a Khond tribal axe with double points.

€1650,-
Batad Ifugao hinālung

Rare double-edged shortsword of the Ifugao of northern Luzon.

€800,-
Later South Nias belatu

Nice and complete example with talisman basket. Probably 20th century.

€1100,-
A milam of the Garo

This peculiar sword was used by the Garo people of Assam for fighting, clearing the jungle, and animal sacrifices.

€1800,-
A Khasi dao

These mysterious weapons were already obsolete when the first ethnographers encountered them.

€3200,-
Rare beladau lebar dagger

A rare type of dagger from South Kalimantan, loosely based on Islamic daggers seen worn by traders.

€475,-
Sumatran hilted Dutch saber

Using a possibly captured M1898 "klewang" blade.

€800,-
Broad Vietnamese knife

Broad bladed example with horn hilt and engraved blade.

€900,-
Very good sikin panjang

Its blade with very fine and complex pamor, brought out by a polish.

€2200,-
An old dha (carbon 14 dated)

Found in excavated condition, published with results of c-14 and XRF analysis.

€1000,-
The Wiasemsky Montagnard dha

Collected by a Russian prince from the hill peoples of central Vietnam in 1892.

€1800,-
An excavated dha sword

With heavy blade and copper alloy hilt and lobed guard.

€700,-
Balinese spearhead with scabbard

With fine twist-core pamor and carved wooden scabbard.

€1800,-
A fine, heavy piha kaetta

Of the chopper variety, with a finely carved ivory hilt.

€1650,-
Sinhalese kirichchiya

With carved horn hilt and characteristic finger guard.

€300,-
An early "piha-kaetta"

Of nice quality, with unusual openwork silver bolster with serapendiya.

€1500,-
Ramree veteran khukurī

Signed: Ricky Milnes, India 44, Burma 44, Ramree 45.

€400,-
A fine and unusual Dutch colonial gun

Based on the Dutch Beaumont mechanism, but with Indonesian twist forged barrel and golden inlays.

€5000,-
A Sinhalese knife

Rarely seen today, a commoner's example with carved, bone hilt.

€200,-
A Sumbawa Kabeala

With broad silver-clad scabbard, worked entirely in repousse.

€1250,-
Chilanum dagger

Somewhat worn but once very high-quality, with great sculptural qualities and remains of silver "true inlay".

€2300,-
A large Vietnamese falchion

Description A rather unusual Vietnamese falchion, by lack of a better n

€1100,-