Large Antique Copper Cooking Pot Steam Pot Dome Lid Signed
Large Antique Copper Cooking Pot Steam Pot. This is a traditional family copper cooking pot with dome lid. Pot is 12" across top 6 1/4" tall with-out lid 9 1/2 with lid. Pot is signed I believe it id Greek - I. The pot is estimated to be from the 1800s or earlier.
The cook pot was an indispensable item in the traditional Mani Greece household, used in the preparation of the daily meal. Its shape is cylindrical and has a dome-shaped lid. Cooking pots were placed on a trivet, a metal tripod, over the fire.Sometimes they used to hang the pot with a chain, called "kremastala" or "kremastalysi", over the fire in the fireplace, which was called "fotogonia". Cooking pots had a tin plate inside, in order to prevent food poisoning and that is why they were often given to tinsmiths, who were street craftsmen specialized in tinning, along with other daily utensils.