Brass Dhokra Work Fish Money Box From Orissa - Ca 1920 Style - Teapot Useful and decorative - Paraths

Useful and decorative - Paraths were used as mixing bowls for making chapatti and paratha - They are found all over India

61 x 8 x 61 (wxdxh cms)

100% Silk - DRY CLEAN

and layers of distressed paint that enhance its rustic charm

A family ancestor portrait would typically be hung above

Brass Dhokra Work Fish Money Box From Orissa - Ca 1920 Style - Teapot Useful and decorative - ParathsThis charming brass fish is from Orissa, on the east coast of India. There is a very long history of fishing there fish figures like this one would be given as a wedding gift to daughters during marriage. These jali fish were traditionally filled with sweet smelling spices and hung in huts, much the same as we used pot pourri, in Europe. Dhokra metal casting is one of the oldest traditional techniques of metal casting in India that uses the lost wax