Brass Dhokra Work Fish Money Box From Orissa - Ca 1920 Material - Burr Elm but is in fact a

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

These authentic Indian kadai fire bowls date to the 1920s and have been hand-selected in Rajasthan

The drawers which are unusual

Other manufacturers made competing tinned paste products until the 1980s

130 x 42 x 125 (wxdxh cms)

Brass Dhokra Work Fish Money Box From Orissa - Ca 1920 Material - Burr Elm but is in fact aThis 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