Dishes and bowls besides those found on the ground, are seen in the hands of persons who appear in the scenes, first of all the small bowl carried by one of the attendants in the retinue of all persons of distinction, just in the same way as the sirih‑utensils at a later period. This vessel is nearly always as if folded in shape, rather narrow at the bottom, and widening out at the top, in a few instances (IV 55 and others) it is high and narrow. It is also to be seen in unfolded form, like a flat bowl rectangular or round. The contents is seldom to be seen, but sometimes there is something sticking out over the edge, not always the same. We see things like leaves and also loops either separate or together; in every case where the contents are visible, we see also two rather pointed hook‑like pieces bent over the edge and in most instances these objects are the only ones discernible or far more distinct than the others. I give some examples: hooks III 23 and 43; leaves, Ib 76; leaves and hooks II 23; loops and hooks IV 56, loops and leaves (square ones) IIB 54 and 55. Notice IIIB 23, where as well as leaves and hooks, a kind of rosette with loops at the four sides appears. We might think that in spite of the variation in the contents of these vessels, they are all intended to hold the same ingredients, one or other of which happens to shew over the edge. IIIB 44 is quite an exception, there a necklace is hanging out of the bowl.

I have just alluded to the set of such utensils; it has actually been suggested, that these folded vessels contain betel‑leaves and that betel‑chewing was already a custom in Java at this period. This is certainly not impossible, for already in the fourth century in Further India, pinang with chalk and betel was being used; but on the other handin the seventh century, the part of Sumatra visited by I‑tsing only made use of pinang mixed with spices  and sirih‑chewing in Javais first reported in 1416. The exact truth therefore can not be established and the varying contents of these vessels on the reliefs, makes it advisable to leave the question undecided.

All other bowls and dishes, sillier held in the hand or placed beside or among the figures are nearly always, when the contents are discernable, filled with flowers and wreaths. Examples can be seen on Ia 74, 78, 81, 107, 120, Ib 27, 55, 85, 103, 120, IBb 117, 127, IIB 32, II 27, 37, 44, 49, 52, 57, III 8, 43, 68, IVB 36, 65. These flowers and wreaths appear on every possible occasion, paying homage, receiving audience, religious ceremonies, and in Bali at the present day it can be seen how this tradition has been preserved, even to the way of piling up the wreaths into a pyramid such as those on Ia 109, Ib 39, II 8. Jeweled ornaments, especially bracelets for the upper arm are to be seen, held ready or offered as gifts, on trays, forinst. Ia 9, 16, 17, 26, IBa 1. The flat dishes being held slantwise as on O 70, Ia 98, II 73, is probably due to the wish for letting the contents, some sort of ornamental figure with a frame round it (is it a cake?) be plainly visible. At distributions as will be seen later on, there are trays with jewels, rings, moneybags, garments and such like, prepared for distribution. Jugs with a spout are also quite common. For peculiarities that appear only once like the dish with the bowl full of something between two small objects on O 43 or Ia 9, see the description of the reliefs themselves. A pot or bag of peculiar shape like a paperbag is strewn on O 54 and IBa 326 b.

Vessels that appear continually either in the hands of persons or standing about lamps and incense‑burners,which are not very easily distinguished from one another; the waving line seen above them may just as well be a flame as the smoke of incense. They must generally be meant for incensories, as the scenes nearly always represent daylight.When held in the land, the person very often has a little fan in the other hand to rouse tl~e flame. These objects are of all sorts; small and elegant (Ia 5, 21, III 43), rather larger end of an elaborate model (II 4, 5, 13, III B6, IV 26, 36), then very plain (Ia 100), with a flat top (IBa 232), a heavier top (Ib 83, IV 17), a short squat shape (O 81, IV 33). Occasionally there is one without any stem Ib 85, or in contrast, a very tall thin one like a torch (Ia 59). Sometimes there is an incense‑burner with a handle at the side for carrying it, as on Ia 114, IIB 68, II 81. The standing incenscburners are generally the same shape as the above‑mentioned, except those with the handle (see Ia 18, 24, 69—71, 74, 92, 106, Ib74, IBa 80, 167, 235 etc. II 99, III 14, 47, IVB 72, 73); as flay are not intended to be carried, we find also larger (O 125, IBb 33, 128), taller (II 83) and thicker ones (III 21, IVB 50, IV 15); besides these there is now and then one, not in use and closed with a lid, as on II 22. Very curious in shape is the incensory on III 61, with a wide square ornamented top on a slender stem and the one on IVB 55, with a large censer in the centre and a smaller one at each side. Large lamps with branches for several lights are found occasionally near buildings as on O 24 and 155; let me here recall attention to the extraordinary temple with lamps or incense‑burners on III 25, which of course cannot represent any real building. Finally IIB 20 is important; it shews us a sleeping room, and on each side a hanging‑lamp with its oil‑vessel in a bracket, the very same as specimens that have been dug up in Java; here we have undoubtedly before us an existing example of the means of lighting. On that same relief there is a bracket hanging to the ceiling of the room containing a bowl with a scalloped edge, attached to a centre piece and strewing a point on each side that looks as if it might be a flame and the whole object a lamp, though we cannot be certain of it).

Vases are also very important utensils, used for flowers, especially for lotuses both red and blue. These are often very simple in shape, round and undecorated as on O 78 and Ia 91; in the same style as when used as roof‑ornaments (II 80, 82). The round‑bodied shapeis also found decorated, with a band round the middle as on IV 65, moreover ornamented on the side of neck and foot as II 30. A taller, more slender shape is less common, see Ia 6, 88, just as the very high narrow sort on III 68. The most ordinary shape is a vase that widens~out right below the neck and then goes narrower to the foot, see O 66, Ia 54, II 2, III36, IVB 44, IV 20; with ornamented band round the middle II 62. These are all without spout; but cases with a spout are quite as numerous. Among them as well the shape just‑mentioned is more common, wider at the top and going narrower at the bottom, such as Ia 97,107, Ib 73, IBa 80, 269, II 25) 76, III 3, IVB 24.13ut there is also a slenderer kind of these, see I13a 191, II 14, and a fat‑bodied sort, II 78. FIONVCrS are often placed in shells (turbinella's) fixed on a trivet as on Ia 92, 96, 108, Ib 1, IBa 290, III 26; these are also to be seen empty, f. i. IBa 85, II 39, or used as holywater font as seen above. Basins of a shell shape \Vit}lOUt a stand also appear, as on O 1 50; trivets with an ordinary vessel, IBa 1 1 8.