18TH CENTURY
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A Large Ceylonese Piha-Kaetta
18th Century
The blade cut with a fuller along the back-edge on each side and engraved with foliage on each side at the forte, the engraved brass-mounted hilt with ivory grip-scales finely carved with foliage, and silver pommel-cap finely chased with foliage, in carved and fluted two-piece wooden scabbard
14in. (37.5cm.)
18th Century
The blade cut with a fuller along the back-edge on each side and engraved with foliage on each side at the forte, the engraved brass-mounted hilt with ivory grip-scales finely carved with foliage, and silver pommel-cap finely chased with foliage, in carved and fluted two-piece wooden scabbard
14in. (37.5cm.)