an embossed brass dish depicting " all of you " from old calabar. The steam engine was used

The steam engine was used in situations where speed was critical or wind was absent

mr ironbar chose to solve the problem of art breakages and wastage by encouraging the women artists to transfer their designs to brass which was a far more durable and luxurious material

the rim is decorated with what appears to be scales maybe representing a serpent swallowing its taii an "ouroboros "

makers stamp to the base

long enough to keep your ankles warm

an embossed brass dish depicting " all of you " from old calabar. The steam engine was usedan antique embossed brass dish from old calabar depicting the tortoise named " all of you " the main charecter in the allegorical tale from igbo folklore " the tortoise and the birds " dating from around 1910 350mm diameter. (the dish has a couple of small stress fractures on the tortoise shell.) "The Tortoise and the Birds" is a folktale where the cunning but greedy tortoise tricks the birds into giving him feathers to fly to a feast in the sky.