A LARGE INDONESIAN COPPER PRIEST’S OFFERING TRAY, TALAM
40 cm diam Flanged rim, the centre with a stylized flower inside a circular band with pointed decoration and another circular band with a floral scroll.
Provenance: Acquired before 1975. The talam trays were used by priest to place ritual objects or offerings. Two talam trays are in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (see M. Lenner – S. Kossak, The Lotus Transcendent. Indian and Southeast Asian Art from the Samuel Eilenberg Collection, New York 1991, pp. 179-180, nn. 179-180).