Two sabers (chestes) and a knife (piha-kaetta), Two sabers (chestes) and a knife (piha kaetta), Kastane with scabbard, Two sabers (kastanes) and a knife (piha-kaetta ), Saber with a solid silver hilt in the shape of a dragon head with two stones as eyes, guard rod with three dragon heads and a front bracket with griffin head and a bodhisattva. Decoration Ceylonese, shape of hilt and blade European. Blood channel covered with silver tendrils edge. Wooden sheath entirely covered with silver plate, decorated with tendrils ending in a curl, four bearing eyes., ornament derived from plant forms, dragon, Kandy, Vijaya Rajasinha (king of Kandy), Lubbert Jan baron van Eck, Dutch East India Company, anonymous, Sri Lanka, before 1765, silver (metal), wood (plant material), iron (metal), gold (metal), diamond (mineral), ruby (mineral), crystal (lead glass), founding, l 61.5 cm l 49 cm × w 5.5 cm w 9.3 cm w 3 cm
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Two sabers, chestes, knife, piha-kaetta, piha kaetta, Kastane, scabbard, kastanes, Saber, solid black-and-white hilt, shape, dragon head, two stones, eyes, guard rod, three dragon heads, front bracket, griffin head, bodhisattva, Decoration Ceylonese, hilt, blade European, Blood channel covered, black-and-white tendrils edge, Wooden sheath entirely covered, black-and-white plate, decorated, tendrils ending, curl, four bearing eyes, ornament derived, plant forms, dragon, Kandy, Vijaya Rajasinha, king, Lubbert Jan baron van Eck, Dutch East India Company, Sri Lanka, 1765, black-and-white, metal, wood, plant material, iron, gold, diamond, mineral, ruby, crystal, lead glass, founding, l 61 5
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