Items | Mandarin Mansion

Persian wootz double spearhead

Finely crafted wootz blade, and golden inlays at the base.

€2000,-
Persian wootz spearhead

Made using Persian wootz. Pronounced features, chiseled socket.

€1200,-
Studded Eastern Tibetan dagger

Of Kham area regional style, with a grip studded with turquoises and corals.

€3800,-
Dayak dart quiver with darts

Complete with a large number of darts, some with poisoned tips.

Reserved
Fine Dayak blowgun

Long piece, original length, with aso motif inlaid in blade.

Reserved
Goat hilted Khyber sword

With gold plated hilt and pattern welded blade.

€3300,-
Kutch shamshir for Benson

Blade of Persian shamshir form, but of Indian make. Mounts in Kutch style gilt copper.

€5200,-
Central Asian dated kard 1709

With wootz blade inlaid in gold with the name of the maker and the owner.

€2600,-
Boy's brass hilted patá

With charming zoomorphic gauntlet with feline head.

€2200,-
Khanda with etched blade

A late 19th-century type with an etched blade, simulating patterned steel.

€3500,-
Eastern Tibetan or Yunnan zhibeidao

A simple piece, but with a nicely etched blade typical for the Tibetan / Sichuan borderlands.

€575,-
Tibetan shortsword with pierced mounts

With characteristic pointy hairpin forged blade.

€1550,-
A fine north Indian dagger

Of jambiya form, with pattern welded blade and fine silver scabbard mounts.

€3600,-
Ceremonial peurise teumaga

Cast brass shield of a ceremonial type that was used during sword dances in Aceh.

€300,-
Vietnamese single edged spearhead

Large, heavy single-edged example with iron mounts.

€450,-
Peony karakusa tsuba

Executed in "nanban style" openwork with chiseled and gold-encrusted peonies.

€350,-
Sawasa style iron guard

Unusual piece with depiction of a foreign figure.

€350,-
Peranakan "pending" buckle

Belt buckle from West-Java, worn by Peranakan and wealthy Javanese women.

€250,-
Golden kabuto with iron menpo

A striking battle helmet from the Momoyama period of 1568-1600 A.D.

Reserved
Sabiki or "Wahhabite jambiya"

With a long, sword-like blade characteristic of this type. With original belt.

€500,-
The saber of Manchu Wu Songlu

A standard pattern Qing military saber, but with the rare addition of a label in Manchu.

€1900,-
A large Qing dàdāo

Large and heavy example with the notable Umlauff provenance.

€1600,-
Daruma tsuba

A peculiar tsuba with a depiction of Bodhidharma and two dragon chasing a pearl.

€420,-
Wan-gata tsuba by Kunihiro

Its outer surface is decorated with interlocking swastikas and family crests.

€460,-
Indian madu parrying weapon

Made with two antelope horns and an iron shield.

€800,-
Talwar with wootz hilt and blade

With Persian style blade, showing Indian workmanship.

€3300,-
Very good sikin panjang

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

€2200,-
A Padri carbine

An unusual variety, shortened to carbine size, with a chicken wing wood stock.

€1300,-
A "Mecca" Jambiya

A style of dagger often associated with the pilgrimage to Mecca.

€650,-
Cast iron compass rose guard

A peculiar cast iron sword guard, probably from the South China Seas area.

€350,-
Afghan sickle, called lohar

Of typical design, forged from one piece of iron, overlaid with brass on one side.

€275,-
Unusual Chinese saber

Built around an imported blade, with a human head shaped pommel.

€800,-
SE Asian dha (carbon 14 dated)

In excavated condition. With XRF and radiocarbon dating results.

€600,-
An old dha (carbon 14 dated)

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

€1100,-
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.

€1500,-
A Sinhalese kirichchiya

A rare type of Sinhalese dagger with stylized bird hilt and blade with backedge.

€400,-
An excavated dha sword

With heavy blade and copper alloy hilt and lobed guard.

€700,-
Old Madura keris

With carved wooden hilt with a beautiful deep patina. Blade in old finish.

€400,-
Sinhalese coral hilted knife

Also known as piha-kaetta, this is more correctly a pihiya.

€2200,-
Balinese spearhead with scabbard

With fine twist-core pamor and carved wooden scabbard.

€2200,-
Acehnese peudeueng

With Hindu style basket hilt and local blade in European style.

€1100,-
Balinese keris

A classic example with an older blade and timaha wood scabbard.

€350,-
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,-
Wood hilted dahmjaun

With iron ferrule and copper and silver overlaid blade.

€400,-
Signed nakago kozuka

A by-knife for a Japanese sword, with a hilt shaped like a sword tang.

€450,-
Unusual Indian zulfiqar sword

With bifurcated S-shaped blade in talwar hilt.

€2000,-
A fine 19th century khukurī

With iron, silver overlaid hilt. Its associated scabbard features fine quillwork.

€1800,-
Gold mounted presentation khukurī

Thought to have been presented by the Royal House of Nepal.

€3000,-
A katar with true inlay decoration

Late 17th century. With wootz blade and enamel chape.

€3200,-