λ TWO SINHALESE PIHA KAETTAS DAGGERS
Ceylon, Sri Lanka, 19th century

Each with a broad single-edged steel blade with thick fuller along the back edge, comprising a dagger with an elegant ivory hilt with stylised cloud-shaped silver studs and carved with volutes, fleshy leaves and vegetal trellis, 26.5cm long; and another similar dagger, with bone hilt decorated with vegetal scrollwork, 26cm long.

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