Bali Keris

[Gustav]

Alan, I knew you wouldn't sit on that, thank you.

Yes, this is proper Balinese style ornamentation on Pendok, and this is a proper front side of a Pendok.

Letting the material question outside (so even if the Pendok would be made from gold), the ornamentation is too lush/dynamic to be pre-1908 work. As we know, old style Balinese art was quite different from that, what we are used to see today, even as "vintage" or "old", and it includes everything - carvings, painting, music, dance. It took a couple of years, but it all started to change around 1913 - and then of course from the beginning of 1930ties.