Auctions Imperial Arms and Armor 2015

Of characteristic form, each caribou horn plate pierced along the edges and connected to one another by hardened bronze rings, those of the shoulders

A private purchase sword, with broad steel backstrap and three-bar hilt, with flattened, rolled quillon, the ebony grip with fingerstalls. The superio

A very seldom encountered type. Of rounded-conical form showing evidence of Persian wootz forging, set with three plumeholders, an adjustable nasal wi

Acehnese work, rarely encountered. Composed of cane woven through with rattan. Embellished with seven pierced and profiled brass stars. Retains its or

The symmetrical wooden body covered entirely in polished mother of pearl panels with applied crescent and star, the spout covered in a chevron motif,

The steel hilt well-chiseled and pierced, with bilobate guard, grip with complex copper and silver wire wrap with turksheads intact, the straight, dou

Carved of a single piece of mottled white jade, with chiseled Arabic inscriptions to both exterior and interior, and vinework to the sides and shank,

A rare example, the carved hardwood hilt of characteristic form with twisted brass wire-covered grip and ferrule, the blade straight, broad, thick, an

The guarded brass hilt profiled and piered, with lotus-bud terminal. The blade of flattened diamond section, recurved and double-edged. In its velvet-

Daghestan workmanship, with actively-grained hardwood stock, the spherical walrus butt with lanyard ring. Elaborately mounted in engraved and nielloed