This little piece of wooden altar furniture is used for the display of offerings. It is painted in red and gold, and has rather simple carvings of floral motifs on its front side, which indicates that it is locally made in Indonesia. There exist also richly decorated ones, either rectangular or hexagonal in shape, lacquered in black, red, and gold gilt with scenes of Chinese life and landscapes. They were imported from Guangdong, and consist of several parts: a stand with a tray, which may be detachable, and a cover. When in use on the altar the cover is removed and placed under the stand. The offering stand illustrated here has no cover or tray, but is made out of one piece of wood. In Indonesia it is called a meja cian ap or also cenap for short. Meja is Indonesian for ‘table’, and cian ap is derived from Hokkien. It is placed on the altar during festive occasions such as the ninth day of the Chinese New Year or at a wedding ceremony, and decorated as part of the offerings. There are specific rules on how to prepare and arrange the decorations which consist of bamboo skewers strung with candied fruit, that are fixed in the little holes on top of the meja cian ap. Among these fruits are young papaya which symbolizes abundance and fertility, since it has many seeds (Ee et al. 2008: 79), the fruit of the sugar palm (kolang-kaling), and red berries. Little beaded dolls can also be added to the decorations (for examples of decorations, see Kwa et al. 2009: 275, Tjahyadi 2012: 209-210, and Cheo Kim Ban 2009: 46).