Indian Apple-Form Vessel

The catalogue says apple. Eve would have needed help.

This apple-form vessel is copper, from India. The record gives no date. India has a long tradition of large hammered copper storage vessels, often assembled from joined sheets. Here a broad rounded body swells beneath a thick rolled shoulder and a wide inner mouth, with a raised seam running low around it. The surface is deep red-brown and closely hammered, catching light in two soft patches. Thirty-four inches high and 47 in diameter.

Keeps the doctor away at any reasonable distance.