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Cake pot

Title

Cake pot

Year/Period

c. 1930

Region

Kelantan, Northeast Malay Peninsula

Dimension

Object size: XXXX-03350-001: H4.8 x W16.1cm,
Object size: XXXX-03350-002: H7.3 x Dia14.6cm

Accession No.

XXXX-03350

Collection of

Asian Civilisations Museum

This pot 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.