Indian Vessel with Ring Handles

Copper this size is less a pot than a commitment.

This vessel with ring handles comes from India and is contemporary work in copper. In Indian households and temples, big hammered copper vessels like this have long held water and grain, the ring handles there so that two people could carry it. The body is deep and rounded, its dark surface covered in small hammer marks, with a riveted seam running down the side. Below the rolled rim is a band of raised diamonds, each with a central stud, against a paler ground. Heavy rings hang from two riveted lugs. It stands 25 inches high and 25 in diameter.

Fill it with something heavy. Then reconsider moving it.