A Bali keris. First half 20th century - image-1
A Bali keris. First half 20th century - image-2
A Bali keris. First half 20th century - image-1A Bali keris. First half 20th century - image-2

Lot 55 Dα

A Bali keris. First half 20th century

Auction 1166 - overview Cologne
15.12.2020, 11:00 - Asian Art
Estimate: 4.500 € - 5.500 €
Result: 7.250 € (incl. premium)

A Bali keris. First half 20th century

With a steel blade with pamor and 14 luk, the hilt of bayu type covered by gold foil set with rubies and other stones, selut and medak with coloured stones, the scabbard of wood lined with gold foil elaborately chiseled and set with stones, and with two ivory panels carved with mythological figures, the bebanchhan type wrongka of ivory carved with princes, demons and mythological animals. Perspex case.
Length 65.3 cm

Provenance

Collection Dr. Klaus and Murielle Zeidler, Baden-Baden

Literature

Compare a similar but simpler presentation keris given by President Sukarno to the German President Dr. Heinrich Lübke in 1963, sold at Lempertz, Cologne, 13./14.6.2014, lot 78