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Measuring Bowl, wound thread — view 1
Dhokra Metal Casting

Measuring Bowl, wound thread

₹6,400

The surface texture is the wax thread itself, wound by hand around the clay core and never smoothed.

MaterialCast brass
Dimensions15 cm diameter
RegionBastar, Chhattisgarh
About the artist
Jaidev Sharma
Dhokra Metal Casting · Bastar, Chhattisgarh

Dhokra is lost-wax casting, unchanged for four thousand years — a clay core, wound with wax threads drawn one at a time, packed in mud and fired until the wax runs out and the bronze runs in. The mould is broken to free the piece, so every Dhokra object is the only one of itself. Jaidev works with brass scrap collected from the Jagdalpur market.