highly dressed keris
On my last trip to Indonesia i was lucky to find an old keris, very high dressed.
Lucky to take it home, because export of indonesian antiques is not aloud and they are very strict, and lots of control post at the Indonesian border/airport.
Anyway...In my opinion an very old ( think late modjapahit,early mataram?) keris with 5 luk (pendawa).
Looking at the materials, of the pendok, ukiran and wrangka this must have belonged from someone with an highly rank.
The pendok made from silver, with Inten, tip of bottom made of gold, same as the Symbol of the Djogjakarta kraton. I Think the original colour of the pendok was black, and I dont know if this means something for a rank, like red colour only was aloud for the radja, and relative family. Maybe somebody can tell me more about this........
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