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A Cased Gold-Mounted Javanese Kris
With blackened slightly recurved pattern-welded blade, the forte chiselled on one side beneath the gandja as a water buffalo with gold-encrusted details, carved wooden planar hilt, and beaded gold mendaq set with rubies and diamonds, in original wooden scabbard with highly figured sarongan, and with gold pendoq embossed and chased with foliage on the outside: in velvet-covered case
19in. (49.5cm.)
With blackened slightly recurved pattern-welded blade, the forte chiselled on one side beneath the gandja as a water buffalo with gold-encrusted details, carved wooden planar hilt, and beaded gold mendaq set with rubies and diamonds, in original wooden scabbard with highly figured sarongan, and with gold pendoq embossed and chased with foliage on the outside: in velvet-covered case
19in. (49.5cm.)