A BRASS-HILTED MALAY PISO PODANG SWORD
Possibly Sumatra, Malay Archipelago, South East Asia, late 19th century

With a single-edged steel blade, with deep medial ridge and flat tang, the T-shaped brass hilt with a compressed globular pommel hollow around the finial's centre, engraved with foliage, lotus flowers and rosettes, the wooden scabbard fittings made of repoussé silver sheets and decorated with interlocking and scrolling vegetal meanders, 89cm long including the scabbard.