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A RARE DAYAK SHIELD

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:250.00 USD Estimated At:500.00 - 700.00 USD
A RARE DAYAK SHIELD
Auctions Imperial is pleased to announce our 2013 sale, to be held March 16 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Timonium, Maryland. Over 300 lots of choice antique arms and armor including armor, helmets, shields, swords, daggers, battleaxes, maces, halberds, matchlocks, flintlocks and percussion pieces will be offered. Our fine selection for 2013 includes broadswords, baskethilts, shamshirs, shashkas, palas, kindjals, khanjars, tulwars and spears, as well as chain mail and breastplates. This sale will also include important swords and daggers from the Greek War of Independence and the armor of the K...
Of characteristic form, carved from a single large section of wood with raised central ridge, and strengthened at either end with three bands of rattan. Both the obverse and reverse surfaces painted overall with organic pigments, depicting an aso dragon with wild, staring eyes, lengthy fangs and complex tentacles on a black ground. The reverse with integral grip stepped at one end and carved with an aso dragon at the other. Bearing an old collection number in red.First half of the 20th century.Overall length 132 cm. Condition I