Indian Vessel with Ring Handles

Big enough to bathe a small child, though no one is suggesting you try.

This vessel with ring handles comes from India. It is contemporary copper. Copper pots of this size come from a long Indian tradition of household and communal vessels, used for fetching water, keeping grain and cooking in quantity, with copper valued for its durability. The deep body shows hundreds of small hammer dents and a vertical riveted join. A band of diamonds with raised centers sits below the rim, on a silvery ground. Two big rings on riveted lugs stand ready. It is 25 inches high and 25 in diameter.

It would make an unusually serious umbrella stand.