Items | Mandarin Mansion

Twist forged gunbarrel

Finely forged, rifled, and with gold overlay.

€1500,-
Serrated edge talwar

With gold koftgari decorated hilt.

€3500,-
South Indian brass hilted talwar

The hilt with remains of silver plating.

€3800,-
Punjabi serpentine hilted pesh-kabz

From the knife-making center of Bhera in the Punjab, using finely polished serpentine.

€1600,-
Indian sota mace

All steel Indian forward curved mace.

€1350,-
A katar from Bundi

Belonging to a group of royal katar made by Khemau under Maharao Ram Singh.

€5500,-
Hooded sword katar

Extremely large example with nearly full-length Western blade.

€2750,-
Silver decorated Vijayanagara katar

A very good Vijayanagara katar of the 16th century with much of its gold and silver overlay remaining.

€7500,-
Long bladed Deccan katar

With wide flaring side bars that offer added protection.

€1750,-
Parrot hilt wootz khanjar

With vintage silver mounted scabbard.

€4800,-
North Indian katar with tools

With a fine wootz blade with a pronounced center ridge.

€3800,-
Gold alloy Sinhalese pihiya

Often called piha-kaetta, these knives were mainly made by the King's Workshops.

€2800,-
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
Indian Jade mounted dagger

Nice and complete with opaque green hilt and scabbard mounts.

Price on request
South Indian cobra tip sword

An early fighting piece with strong reinforcing langet and broad, cobra shaped tip.

€6500,-
Indian enamel and wootz dagger

With designs of animals, often attributed to Lucknow, north India.

€15000,-
Indian betel box

Made of brass and bronze, now deeply patinated.

€400,-
Very good Deccan chilanum

A large example in excellent state of preservation.

€15500,-
Fijian throwing club

Old 19th century piece with a nice smooth and dark patina.

€2500,-
Flintlock lance

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

€5600,-
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,-
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.

€1500,-
Indian Antelope Axe

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

€400,-
A Khasi dao

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

€3200,-
Sinhalese kirichchiya

With carved horn hilt and characteristic finger guard.

€300,-
Ramree veteran khukurī

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

€350,-
A Sinhalese knife

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

€200,-
Chilanum dagger

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

€2300,-