TABLE (?) for ID

[Ibrahiim al Balooshi]

Originally Posted by A. G. Maisey

Not the vaguest idea.

I've never seen a low-line table like this in Jawa, but the carving style and general appearance of the thing could easily fit into a Javanese context.

My comment was only intended to address the motif and perhaps start a different line of thought.

In the Indian massage tables that I've seen, which are intended for use with oil, height is intended to facilitate use whilst standing, not whilst kneeling, and the projection at one end is bowl shaped to accept oil, most tables of this nature that I have seen have a border all round to prevent the oil dripping onto the floor.

Please see #3 above. Note that the flat board usually has a bench somewhere in the house on which it can be put... The bench is additional to the massage board and I think that is because being covered in oil the board is then leaned against a wall or hung on nails to drip dry.