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A RARE SIAMESE (THAI) NIELLO AND SILVER-GILT MOUNTED CEREMONIAL SPEAR, AYUTTHAYA, 18TH CENTURY

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A RARE SIAMESE (THAI) NIELLO AND SILVER-GILT MOUNTED CEREMONIAL SPEAR, AYUTTHAYA, 18TH CENTURY with long tapering leaf-shaped blade of hollow-ground diamond-section, tapering bamboo haft (the shoe missing, the tip chipped), fitted at the top with a long three-stage niello, sawasa and silver-gilt collar of lai dok phuttan pattern chiselled at the top and bottom with broad leafy bands divided by lotus collars, and the top fitted with a large chiselled foliate washer (one leaf expertly restored with resin), complete with its finely lacquered wooden scabbard decorated over its surface with gilt flowers and foliage (small chips and losses) 217.0 cm; 85 1/2 in overall A very similar spear is preserved in the National Museum, Bangkok and another was sold in this room 4th December 2019, lot 88.

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A RARE SIAMESE (THAI) NIELLO AND SILVER-GILT MOUNTED CEREMONIAL SPEAR, AYUTTHAYA, 18TH CENTURY with long tapering leaf-shaped blade of hollow-ground diamond-section, tapering bamboo haft (the shoe missing, the tip chipped), fitted at the top with a long three-stage niello, sawasa and silver-gilt collar of lai dok phuttan pattern chiselled at the top and bottom with broad leafy bands divided by lotus collars, and the top fitted with a large chiselled foliate washer (one leaf expertly restored with resin), complete with its finely lacquered wooden scabbard decorated over its surface with gilt flowers and foliage (small chips and losses) 217.0 cm; 85 1/2 in overall A very similar spear is preserved in the National Museum, Bangkok and another was sold in this room 4th December 2019, lot 88.

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