Two Bali Hilt ID

[milandro]

Originally Posted by HughChen

Hello Milandro， Thanks you for your answer.

What elements of the first do you think make it a Batara Bayu? I have searched a lot and never seen a same Batara Bayu like this one.

For the second one, An antique appraiser tells me it's undoubtably more than 100 years old. But he is not an expert on Keris so I really need more imformation.

The figure may very well not be Batara Bayu since , as I noted, he doesn't have to vessel (some people call it a mirror but it isn't) in his hands.


This is important to derive hits characteristics.

I have seen people describing similar hilts with depictions of Bhima calling it Bayu too.



The wooden hilts in your possession are the one on the left a Bugis hilt and the one on the right a Sumatran (Palembang?) hilt often referred to as a veiled Durga (although there is much debate on whether this is truly a representation of Durga or not)

Unfortunately, I don't hold the second hilt in any kind esteem at all. In my mind it is a kind of hilt found on krises for the tourist market.

[HughChen]

Originally Posted by milandro

The figure may very well not be Batara Bayu since , as I noted, he doesn't have to vessel (some people call it a mirror but it isn't) in his hands.


This is important to derive hits characteristics.

I have seen people describing similar hilts with depictions of Bhima calling it Bayu too.



The wooden hilts in your possession are the one on the left a Bugis hilt and the one on the right a Sumatran (Palembang?) hilt often referred to as a veiled Durga (although there is much debate on whether this is truly a representation of Durga or not)

Unfortunately, I don't hold the second hilt in any kind esteem at all. In my mind it is a kind of hilt found on krises for the tourist market.

Thank you Milandro. The second hilt is ugly to me, that's why I presumed it's for some local rural purpose like ceremony or so when I purchased it. The reason was that tourists tend to buy beautiful hilts. But I didn't know just guessed.