Some questions about Balinese hilt cup.

[Gustav]

Alan, thank you very much for your detailed response.

Yes, regarding my Keris from #11 - mixture of styles sounds much more reasonable then mixture of parts. A mixture of styles from today's perspective, where such forms are rarely encountered and everything has boiled down to a few easily recognizable models.

What I was struggling to understand, is:

- in #12 you write, you "have never seen any Javanese wrongko that is able to be classified as "kekandikan" using Balinese standards".

- in #17 you write "Your keris shown in post #11, and the keris with dark sarung & dark bebondolan hilt shown in post #6 are both classifiable as kekandikan forms if we apply Balinese terminology & standards."

Here I oncemore would like to note, that Keris with dark Bebondolan from #6 most likely, my Keris from #11 surely are coming from island of Java, perhaps from land of Java. In "The Javanese Keris", 2009, a related form is depicted on p. 83 in a Central Javanese context.

Otherwise I agree with your last post, and of course not only the last one.