˜A RARE INDONESIAN OFFICER~S SWORD, LIÈGE, DATED 1830, PRESENTED BY PANGERAM ADIPATI (1809-91), LATE

˜A RARE INDONESIAN OFFICER~S SWORD, LIÈGE, DATED 1830, PRESENTED BY PANGERAM ADIPATI (1809-91), LATER MANGKUNEGARA IV with curved blade double-edged towards the point, etched over three-quarters of its length with scrolling foliage, trophies and faux damascus pattern, the forte with a rondel within a garland signed ~J. de Villers à Liège~ on one face and ~Damasgaranti~ on the other, gilt-brass hilt cast in low relief, comprising a pair of warrior mask langets, vertically recurved quillons with hound~s head terminals, angular lion mask pommel and later knuckle-chain, and carved ivory grip (small chips) carved with foliage, in its fishskin-covered wooden scabbard (small cracks) with large brass locket, chape decorated with foliage, the former inscribed ~Pangeran Adipattie pourbayo Luitenant [sic] Colonel op Soesoenan no.7 di Soerakarta 1830~, and a pair of suspension bands cast with lion masks 74.5 cm; 29 3/8 in blade Pangeran Adipati (1809-81) became Mangkunegara IV in 1853, and ruled Mangkunegaran, a principality in Soerakarta (Surakarta), South Central Java, until his death. The Java War, also known as the Diponegoro War, was fought from 1825 between the Javanese and the Dutch, culminating in Dutch victory and the Pax Neerlandica in 1830.