ivory balinees

[Lew]

The blade seems older but may not be Balinese?

Lew

[semar]

this is one old blade with pamor wilang senduk
and the hild is parasvati
and it is a balinees blade

[David]

Originally Posted by LOUIEBLADES

The blade seems older but may not be Balinese?

Lew

Yeah, i would agree with Semar, both old and Balinese.
Yep, Parasvati (or Sarasvati)...that would explain the breasts.
...and the other symbolism. From Wikipedia:
She is shown to hold the following in her hands:
A book, which is the sacred Vedas, representing the universal, divine, eternal, and true knowledge as well as her perfection of the sciences and the scriptures.
A mala (rosary) of crystals, representing the power of meditation and spirituality.
A pot of sacred water, representing creative and purificatory powers.
The vina, a musical instrument that represents her perfection of all arts and sciences. Saraswati is also associated with anurāga, the love for and rhythm of music which represents all emotions and feelings expressed in speech or music. It is believed that children born with that name will prove to be very lucky in their studies.
A white swan is often located next to her feet. The sacred swan, if offered a mixture of milk and water, is said to be able to drink the milk alone. The swan thus symbolizes discrimination between the good and the bad or the eternal and the evanescent. Due to her association with the swan, Goddess Saraswati is also referred to as Hamsa-vahini, which means "she who has a swan as her vehicle".

[Lew]

Ok It's Balinese! I am more familar with different styles probably from Lombak That is why I stopped collecting keris too many styles and regions to remember and not enough brains cells left in my head to store all this information

Regards

Lew

[David]

Don't worry Lew, i don't think any of us really have enough brain cells to store all the information on the incredible variance of keris styles of both blade and dress.
Oh, and if you are really finished collecting keris i think i recall that you have at least a couple of nice ones that you should send over my way. You know the address...

[Rick]

I don't think I've ever seen that type of gandar on Bali dress .

[BluErf]

Hmmm... what accounts for the interesting caramel-brown colouration on parts of the hilt, I wonder?

[brekele]

Originally Posted by BluErf

Hmmm... what accounts for the interesting caramel-brown colouration on parts of the hilt, I wonder?

Smoky (fumigation) way is normally way that people in Bali/Lombok coloring their bone or ivory hilt to get caramel-brown or even antik dark-brown look.

[Lew]

Originally Posted by David

Oh, and if you are really finished collecting keris i think i recall that you have at least a couple of nice ones that you should send over my way. You know the address...

David

I might be done with collecting keris for now but as they say "I ain't dead yet"




Lew