Vintage Antique 8" Bronze Dhokra TORTOISE w/FISH Figurine Incense Burner Censer

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Vintage Antique Dhokra Tortoise with Fish Bronze Figurine Incense Burner Censer
We have for your consideration today a wonderful 8" long Tortoise with a Fish riding on its back bronze incense censer,
made in the Dhokra wax-relief method of bronze casting.
It looks to have been unused as a censer, in excellent vintage condition with great patina.
The fish sits 4 1/2" high on a hinged lid (original hinge and latch still intact and in working order).
Dhokra is one of the earliest know methods of non-ferrous metal casting known to human civilization.
Using what is known as the lost wax technique and every single piece is cast on a hand made clay mold
that is broken in the casting process, thus no two pieces are identical.
The craft of Dhokra has survived many centuries in India but today with modernization setting in
and the lifestyle of the tribal people who still practice Dhokra, changing, the craft is fading away.
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