Ending 28th Jun, 2026 14:00

Olympia Timed: Arms, Armour & Militaria June 2026

 
  Lot 507
 

507

A BALINESE KRIS, PROBABLY 18TH CENTURY

with tapering double-edged elaborate black and white pamor blade of slightly hollowed flattened diamond section with double fuller on each side of the forte, and richly patinated wooden grip (loose) carved with a recessed diamond pattern and with ‘eared’ rounded pommel, in its wooden scabbard with characteristically shaped figured wranka, 44.8 cm blade

According to Robert Hales, Islamic and Oriental Arms and Armour: A Lifetime's Passion, St Peter Port 2013: “Of all the elaborate pamor blades produced in Bali, this type is the most difficult for the empu (smith) to make.”


 

with tapering double-edged elaborate black and white pamor blade of slightly hollowed flattened diamond section with double fuller on each side of the forte, and richly patinated wooden grip (loose) carved with a recessed diamond pattern and with ‘eared’ rounded pommel, in its wooden scabbard with characteristically shaped figured wranka, 44.8 cm blade

According to Robert Hales, Islamic and Oriental Arms and Armour: A Lifetime's Passion, St Peter Port 2013: “Of all the elaborate pamor blades produced in Bali, this type is the most difficult for the empu (smith) to make.”