Spouted Pot

This cast bronze vessel having a flat round belly and a somewhat elongated neck, a dome-shaped lid with a crowning figure of a peacock, and a spout is meant for pouring ghee or oil over roti or rice.
The peculiarity of this pot is that the spout is not totally round like a pipe as usual, but more like an open channel. Open spouts of this type have an old history in western India. Several fragments of earthenware spouted vessels from Harappan sites such as Kot Diji collected from the excavations have revealed this particular spouted vessel type.