˜A RARE SIAMESE (THAI) IVORY AND SILVER-MOUNTED SWORD, RATTANAKOSIN, LATE 19TH CENTURY with broad curved single-edged blade widening to a blunt tip (hua tad) and struck with a flowerhead mark on one face at the forte, curved hilt encased in chased silver, comprising sections of ivory carved with a vertical arrangement of figures divided by chased silver bands, a broad silver ferrule at the base with plaited mouldings and pommel en suite with the ferrule rising to a fluted onion-shaped terminal, in its black lacquered scabbard (repaired) with some early gold decoration including billowing clouds and dragons (losses) 49.0 cm; 19 ¼ in blade Provenance Stated to have been presented by the Governor of Bangkok to the previous owner. The figures on the hilt are almost certainly Hanuman's warriors from the Ramakian (The Glory of Rama).