oil spreader

Copper pouring vessel. Rising from flat base through waisted section to oval shaped body with flaring rim, open curved spout also with flaring rim. The lower rim and waist each have a band of carved scrolling vegetal pattern, between which the body is decorated with carved diamond shapes. Above the waist is a section decorated with interlacing curved lines forming a lattice enclosing floral motifs. Two further bands of repeating rounded motifs around the widest part and below the rim.
label: brown Wellcome label

used in the hammam

object
MUSEUM NUMBER
1982.149
PLACE
COLLECTION
MEASUREMENTS
overall: 133.35 x 304.8 mm
MATERIAL/TECHNIQUE
copper
CATEGORY
Anthropology: Ethnography
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