Chinese Dao

[Klas Larsson]

What a nice piece! And in original condition! And the high end style, is it gold inlays on the fittings? It looks like it, and some burnt on gold wash (dont know the proper English word for this, when you use mercury and heat?) on the fittings to. A real court dao – amazing! I'll be 'chuffed to bits' if this was mine

Could we maybe see some more pictures, like of the whole blade, that would be great?

Yellow was reserved for nobility. Phillip Tom thought this belonged to the equivalent of a Chinese duke.

Just reading a book on the Forbidden city and they point out the yellow roof tiles of the place, that stood out in a city where the other roofs where grey.