A Burmese silver-clad ceremonial dha. Probably Shan States. Around 1900 - image-1
A Burmese silver-clad ceremonial dha. Probably Shan States. Around 1900 - image-2
A Burmese silver-clad ceremonial dha. Probably Shan States. Around 1900 - image-1A Burmese silver-clad ceremonial dha. Probably Shan States. Around 1900 - image-2

Lot 62 Dα

A Burmese silver-clad ceremonial dha. Probably Shan States. Around 1900

Auction 1203 - overview Cologne
11.06.2022, 11:00 - Asian Art
Estimate: 1.200 € - 1.400 €

A Burmese silver-clad ceremonial dha. Probably Shan States. Around 1900

The single-edged steel blade with fighting figures, leafy scrolls and inscriptions in silver onlay to both sides, the cylindrical hilt with a lotus bud finial, silver-clad, and with figures and leafy branches in niello, the silver-clad scabbard subdivided into ten segments by wavy wires of brass.
Length 87.5 cm

Provenance

From a Rhenish estate, acquired in 1976
Private collection, Southern Germany