A Malay Matchlock Long Gun
MALAYSIA, 19TH CENTURY
Siapa kata orang Melayu dulu hanya bersenjatakan keris dan tombak sahaja. Kerajaan Melayu lama, juga mahir menggunakan meriam, pistol dan senapang.
Buktinya, sekarang ini ada Senapang Melayu di era abad ke 19 (1800an), dilelong di rumah lelongan Christie's di London pada 6 Oktober 2011.
(Christie's adalah antara rumah lelongan (auction house) barangan antique yang terkenal di dunia. Christie's juga pernah mengendalikan jualan lelong barangan hasil seni Pablo Picasso yang mencapai harga RM310 juta).
Ini ialah keterangan pada laman sesawang tersebut :
Lot Description
A Malay Matchlock Long Gun
MALAYSIA, 19TH CENTURY
Of typical form with heavy brass furniture including a trigger and serpentine with stepped temple design, a dark wood butt with copper plating at end, the extended lock and trigger plates with elegant palmette motifs on either end, the trigger guard with engraved quatrefoil design, both sides of rifle butt with applied copper and brass floral and quatrefoil appliques, tin plated faceted barrel attached to lacquered wood stock with three silver brackets, with ivory headed ramrod.
52in. (132.1 cm.) long
Sale Information
Sale 7987
Art of the Islamic and Indian Worlds
6 October 2011
London, King Street
https://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?intObjectID=5483332#
http://akustressgiler.blogspot.com/2012/04/omg-senapang-melayu-berharga-rm40000.html?spref=bl
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