Items | Mandarin Mansion

17th century Javanese tombak

With floral overlay, kinatah, typical for the period.

€5500,-
South Kalimantan parang

Of typical South Borneo workmanship, but formed like a mandau from Kutai.

€2000,-
Sumatran sword with gold covered hilt

A fine example, probably meant for Palembang royalty.

€5500,-
Fine pierced nanban tsuba

Very delicate work with carved guardian lions.

€500,-
Aoi-gata tsuba with foreigners

Unusual tsuba with foreign figures and Chinese auspicious symbols.

€1800,-
Iron nanban ship tsuba

Pierced and chiseled showing an 18th century European vessel.

€475,-
Hirado Kunishige fuchi

One of his classic designs, signed by the maker.

Reserved
Sawasa smallsword pommel

Upgraded with filigree to resemble a snuff bottle.

€1600,-
Sawasa east indian inkwell

Sawasa is metalware in black and gold made primarily for the Dutch expat community in Asia.

€3800,-
Dutch Colonial sirih box

Complete with key, inside divider and four silver containers.

€4750,-
Nyamba keris hilt with seal

Rare old keris handle made into a European wax seal.

€1500,-
Unusual Indonesian carved grip

Made of carved wood with metal inlays for eyes and mouth.

€450,-
Batak bullet holder

Carved of amber-colored horn, with an ancestral face with metal inlays.

€850,-
Dayak bamboo container

Carved with typically Dayak aso motifs.

€800,-
Burmese silver manuscript holder

For holding and protecting important documents.

€650,-
Chinese export lacquer box

A nice example with unusually fine lacquerwork and a monogram in the lid.

€3800,-
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.

€8500,-
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,-
Heavy dha

The thick and heavy blade is marked with a script that has yet to be identified.

€600,-
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,-
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,-
Batad Ifugao hinālung

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

€700,-
Later South Nias belatu

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

€900,-
A Khasi dao

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

€3200,-
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,-
Nanban kogai & kozuka set (futakoromono)

The only set of its type known to me in both private and museum collections.

Price on request
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,-
Qing openwork saber guard

A very rare Chinese saber guard dating from the height of the Qing dynasty.

€1500,-
A fine and unusual Dutch colonial gun

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

€5000,-
A Sumbawa Kabeala

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

€1250,-
A large Vietnamese falchion

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

€1100,-