This entry brings together a blade and scabbard of fine Javanese craftsmanship within a broadly Central Javanese aesthetic framework that prizes restraint and material coherence over figural elaboration. It stands at the opposite end of the hilt-ornament spectrum from the Balinese figural entries.
The lurus blade carries a large-scale, boldly patterned pamor in which the nickel-rich material forms broad swirling clouds against the dark iron ground, consistent with named types such as awan-awan (clouds) or related large-scale formations associated in the typological literature with calm authority and leadership. The ganja is broad and well fitted. The hilt is ivory with incised line decoration in a geometric vocabulary and a small brass mendak with fiber wrapping. There is no figurative carving: the ivory itself, with its natural color and linear incision, is the decorative statement, an approach that aligns this hilt with H01 among the plain-material group within the H series.
The scabbard is a fine Javanese gayaman: the broad flat-topped T-shaped atasan in two-tone figured hardwood (likely sono or trembalo), with ivory spacer rings at the junction of atasan and gandar. The ivory rings establish a material dialogue between the hilt and the scabbard that the plain figured-wood body alone would not achieve. The cylindrical gandar continues in the same figured wood.
