A Java keris. 19th century
A Java keris. 19th century
A Java keris with a straight steel blade, the hilt of wood carved with flowerets (gerantiman), the mendak of granulated brass?, the scabbard and intergral wrongka of one piece of wood painted in colours and gold with a lozenge pattern filled with deer, birds and flowers (alas alasan). 19th century.
Length 48 cm
** Provenance
Private Collection, Southern Germany
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A Java keris. 19th century
A Java keris with a straight steel blade, the hilt of wood carved with flowerets (gerantiman), the mendak of granulated brass?, the scabbard and intergral wrongka of one piece of wood painted in colours and gold with a lozenge pattern filled with deer, birds and flowers (alas alasan). 19th century.
Length 48 cm
** Provenance
Private Collection, Southern Germany
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