Indian Cylinder Vessel with Loop Handles

Thirty-nine inches across, and not one of them in a hurry.

This cylinder vessel with loop handles is brass, from India. Large hammered metal vessels served Indian households, temples and communal kitchens for generations, often for storing water or grain or for cooking in quantity. Straight walls rise to a wide, flat rim, riveted at either side where a loop hangs. The surface has gone a deep, nearly black brown, with hammer marks showing inside. A band of small stamped rosettes circles the foot. Twenty-one inches high and 39 inches in diameter.

It holds its shape. It would likely hold a good deal else.