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Pedestal dish

Title

Pedestal dish

Year/Period

c. 1930

Region

Malay Peninsula

Dimension

Object size: H7.3 x Dia18.0cm

Accession No.

XXXX-03106

Collection of

Asian Civilisations Museum

This pedestal bowl with scalloped edge has no discerning decorations which suggest that the emphasis was more on the functional shape of the object rather that then on the decorative pattern.The most common decorations on Malay brassware tend to be floral and vegetation within geometric or calligraphic motifs. These motifs were either engraved or embossed onto the object.