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Cooking pot. Budhopur, Gujranwala District, West Pakistan. Shallow, rounded body with flat shoulder and everted rim. Decorated with incised lines. Grey and red colour with some glaze (probably vegetable). Used for cooking. Local name Handi.Height 5 ¾ in.Diameter 11 ¼ in.Part of large collection from Pakistan.
Label: Old exhibition label which is dark orange in colour. It reads: Earthenware cooking pot. Budhopur, Gujranwala Dist., W. Pakistan. Coll. by the Cambridge Asian Expdn., 1961/2.
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