Flora and fauna themed

Balinese architecture as seen from their elaborate and detailed doors & doorways is also seen in their pillars of beautifully carved woodwork with gold trims.

As with the doors, the themes are usually flora and fauna, i.e. flowers, leaves and tendrils especially... and peacocks, other birds and mythical creatures, like dragons too.

Have a look at these...

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Found these decorative pillars at a 'gamelan' pavilion within a Balinese temple
'Gamelan' is a a type of traditional Balinese/Indonesian (also Malay) ensemble music produced using various size gongs and percussion instruments, like the xylophone
All the pillars had carved flowers and plants
The flowers seem to be either lotus or the sunflower

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Many of these are gold trimmed, and painted while maintaining their natural wood tones

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Even the eaves of the roof was decorated with similar carved gold-painted designs...
and had a 'skirting'/trim of pleated gold cloth

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