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Unusually Large Malay Silver/Copper Tray or Plate (Pinggan)

This Malay plate or tray of unusually large proportions. The centre is engraved with a roundel featuring a kris crossed with its scabbard amid typically Malay scrolling foliage (see the photographs below.) The bowl of the tray is edged with a finely etched border of stylised orchids and foliage. The fluted side rises to a flattened border of more scrolling foliage finished with a reinforced scalloped edge.

A large tray that has some similarities with this example and which is attributed to Riau is illustrated in Islamic Arts Museum of Malaysia,

The Message and the Monsoon: Islamic Art of Southeast Asia, IAMM, 2005, p. 192.