Indian Apple-Form Vessel

The shoulders are high, the foot is small, and the balance looks effortless.

This apple-form vessel is copper, from India. The record gives no date. Hammered copper was long the material of choice for large Indian storage vessels, being durable and workable. A thick rolled collar surrounds the deep mouth, and the body falls in one long curve to a narrow foot. A single vertical seam runs down the front and a second circles low on the body. The surface glows red-brown through darker hammered patches. Thirty-four inches high and 39 in diameter.

An apple that could hold a small orchard.