Description 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. This lot contains materials which require a CITES licence for export outside of the EU contract countries. We would like to inform you that such licenses are usually not granted.
Dimensions Length 65.3 cm
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
Provenance Collection Dr. Klaus and Murielle Zeidler, Baden-Baden
Notes VAT: Margin scheme