Brass Dhokra Work Fish Money Box From Orissa - Ca 1920 Material - Burr Elm Other manufacturers made competing tinned

Other manufacturers made competing tinned paste products until the 1980s

benches of this type were indispensable pieces of furniture

Design: Reversible textile with bold floral patterns and contrasting colour palettes

but is in fact a museum quality reproduction hand made in China

The drawers which are unusual

Brass Dhokra Work Fish Money Box From Orissa - Ca 1920 Material - Burr Elm Other manufacturers made competing tinnedThis charming brass fish is from Orissa, on the east coast of India. There is a very long history of fishing there fish figures like this one would be given as a wedding gift to daughters during marriage. These jali fish were traditionally filled with sweet smelling spices and hung in huts, much the same as we used pot pourri, in Europe. Dhokra metal casting is one of the oldest traditional techniques of metal casting in India that uses the lost wax