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![9500A-1-Brass-grain-side-1-](https://vanishingarts.gallery/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/9500A-1-Brass-grain-side-1--300x300.jpg)
$155.00
H: 3.875” Dia: 3.875” | FREE SHIPPING IN CONTINENTAL U.S.!
This antique brass vessel was a daily measuring bowl for rice or other grains made by Dhokra metal smiths from Eastern India using the same lost wax casting process for over 4000 years. Extremely labor intensive and time consuming, each piece is one-of-a-kind. Dhokra items are beautifully and intricately decorated with simple uncomplicated forms. This charming piece is a typical grain measure and has a handle for hanging and decorated with horizontal striations across the top and bordered by downward striated triangles with a smooth patina from age and use. These bowl were regarded as a symbol of the Hindu goddess Lakshmi and was prized by villagers who could afford them for puja home worship and placed on a home altar.
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![9500B 2 gr mea hand frt jpeg](https://vanishingarts.gallery/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/9500B-2-gr-mea-hand-frt-jpeg-300x310.png)
$155.00
H: 4.25” Dia: 4” | FREE SHIPPING IN CONTINENTAL U.S.!
This antique brass vessel was a daily measuring bowl for rice or other grains made by Dhokra metal smiths from Eastern India using the same lost wax casting process for over 4000 years. Extremely labor intensive and time consuming, each piece is one-of-a-kind. Dhokra items are beautifully and intricately decorated with simple uncomplicated forms. This charming piece has handle for hanging with horizontal striations and downward striated triangles with a smooth patina from age and use. This type of bowl was regarded as a symbol of the Hindu goddess Lakshmi and was prized by villagers who could afford them for puja home worship and placed on a home altar.
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$155.00
H: 3.5” Dia: 3.75” | FREE SHIPPING IN CONTINENTAL U.S.!
This antique brass vessel was a daily measuring bowl for rice or other grains made by Dhokra metal smiths from Eastern India using the same lost wax casting process for over 4000 years. Extremely labor intensive and time consuming, each piece is one-of-a-kind. Dhokra items are beautifully and intricately decorated with simple uncomplicated forms. This charming piece has a handle for hanging with horizontal striations and downward striated triangles with a smooth patina from age and use. This type of bowl was regarded as a symbol of the Hindu goddess Lakshmi and was prized by villagers who could afford them for puja home worship and placed on a home altar.
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![](https://vanishingarts.gallery/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/95005E-1-grain-hand-hand-lft--300x273.jpg)
$155.00
H: 3.875” Dia: 4.125” | FREE SHIPPING IN CNTINENTAL U.S.!
This antique brass vessel was a daily measuring bowl for rice or other grains made by Dhokra metal smiths from Eastern India using the same lost wax casting process for over 4000 years. Extremely labor intensive and time consuming, each piece is one-of-a-kind. Dhokra items are beautifully and intricately decorated with simple uncomplicated forms. This charming piece has a handle for hanging with horizontal striations and downward striated triangles with a smooth patina from age and use. This type of bowl was regarded as a symbol of the Hindu goddess Lakshmi and was prized by villagers who could afford them for puja home worship and placed on a home altar.
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$155.00
H: 3.75” Dia: 3.75” | FREE SHIPPING IN CONTINENTAL U.S.!
This antique brass vessel was a daily measuring bowl for rice or other grains made by Dhokra metal smiths from Eastern India using the same lost wax casting process for over 4000 years. Extremely labor intensive and time consuming, each piece is one-of-a-kind. Dhokra items are beautifully and intricately decorated with simple uncomplicated forms. This charming piece has a handle for hanging with horizontal striations and downward striated triangles with a smooth patina from age and use. This type of bowl was regarded as a symbol of the Hindu goddess Lakshmi and was prized by villagers who could afford them for puja home worship and placed on a home altar.
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![9526 2 Rit Ves l tlt side](https://vanishingarts.gallery/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/9526-2-Rit-Ves-l-tlt-side--300x325.png)
$365.00
H: 13″ W: 8.5″ D: 4.75″ | FREE SHIPPING within Continental U.S.!
This graceful brass oil lamp is topped by two peacocks, a large one that held oil and a smaller one decorated with striated lines sitting high on a thin mount with a spiral base. It was used for Hindu prayer rituals (puja) in the home or at temples and for devotional worship. This fine lost wax lamp with a soft patina is a one-of-a-kind piece. Often used in Hindu religious sculptures, peacocks have a strong religious tradition and represent harmony, joy and beauty and the time cycle.
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