votive container; votive container stands (stands (ritual & belief: thanksgiving & votive offerings))

Cast brass offering pot and stand. Offering pot has engraved decoration in horizontal bands depicting stylised figures of Hindu gods, probably incarnations of Vishnu, in arches around the outside. The tripod stand is in the form of a turtle. Engraved surface decoration, perhaps representing turtle's carapace.

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