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A RARE DAYAK SHIELD

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:NA 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. Painted overall in red and off-white on a black ground, depicting an aso dragon in the center with wild, staring eyes, lengthy fangs and complex tentacles, surrounded by smaller dragons. The reverse with integral grip scrolled at either end. First half of the 20th century. Overall length 112.5 cm.
Condition II