Dish, used to hold jewelries, sun symbol, solar disc

Malaysian Museums, National Museum of Malaysia (Muzium Negara)

Solar dish used to hold jewelry, National Museum of Malaysia

DISH
The dish was used to hold jewelry during certain ceremonial assemblies in the 19th century. It is made of silver and shaped like a flower with 16 petals. Each of these bears another small, gilded flower resembling a button.


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Solar dish used to hold jewelry, National Museum of Malaysia
Taken on  Sunday 27th of May 2018
Device: OLYMPUS IMAGING CORP.
Model: SP800UZ
Genre:  19th Century
Source:  Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

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