Items
With naginata-style blades, and lavish gilt copper mounts.
With a black and gold metal sleeve, often called "sawasa".
A fine example with silver overlaid spearhead and silver ferrule with niello inlay.
Called khiên in Vietnamese.
Probably from the French Tonkin campaign of the 1880s.
Rare type of rectangular wooden shield from Vietnam.
Made of lacquered wood, it depicts a Chinese-style tiger.
Modeled after the Chinese "guan dao", made of lacquered wood.
Large, heavy single-edged example with iron mounts.