I think you're right about that illustration I posted, Michael. It probably lacks the triangular head shape we see in other Jawa demams.
When some of these publications give an attribution for an example of S.E Asian art , the attribution is based on where the object was collected, that does not necessarily mean that it originated there, and in the case of something like a keris hilt the European writer would be very unlikely to have much knowledge about that class of object.
So if we look at the example from Bezemer with an attribution of Solo, that Marco has posted, I believe that we are seeing where it was collected. I have never seen anything genuinely associated with Solo that would support that place as a point of origin for Bezemer's Solo hilt.
I think maybe we're still at the starting gate with this hilt form. Maybe its Jawa, but Jawa where?
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