Neck pot Nepal round – M

Description

Traditional hand-carved vintage wooden neck pots. Our neck pots are coming from Western Nepal, the Terai region. The smaller pieces were previously used to store food, ghee, and milk. The ones with a larger rim on top of the bowl are used to catch the milk. When milking cows the milk sprays and the broad rim catches this. Some of these pots have been repaired over the years and each has its own patina.

For many years they stopped using these wooden neckpots. The reason is that they often broke (which they repaired with metal clamps) but mainly because metal pots made them obsolete. Since nothing is thrown away in farmers’ lives, they were stored away for many years. To collect them, a person has to go from house to house in tucked-away small mountain villages. The person who collects them paints each pot with his own color code.

Our Nepalese milk pots make the most wonderful, rustic display items and would be perfect for holding dried or faux flowers, as a statement piece or as a set of several pieces.