Product Description

Antique Sumatran Rice Spoon 5

Material: Wood, lacquer
Style: Sumatra, Indonesia
Size: Length 12 cm, Width 9 cm
Order Number: MHSR5

Ceremonial rice spoons are used to ladle cooked rice from the rice basket on the table to the plate at formal festivities, funerals and weddings and to honour guests. Chinese influence at the Palembang court in South Sumatra accounts for its long tradition of lacquer.  Old ones like these are difficult to find. There is some damage.

About 60-70 years old.

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