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Triangular brass tray with hammered centre and cutwork edges, made in Lahore
$80.00
Two old crafts meet on this one tray — the hammer that beats brass into a dimpled centre, and the needle that pierces its borders into lace. It's made by...
Triangular silver-plated brass tray with hammered centre and cutwork edges, made in Lahore
$80.00
The same two crafts on one tray — the brass hammered to a dimpled centre, the borders pierced into lace — here finished in silver, cooler and a little more...
Long leaf-shaped brass platter with fine cutwork, made in Lahore
$93.00
The cutwork here is so fine it's hard to believe a hand did it — but it did, the way hands have pierced brass into lace across this region for...
Long leaf-shaped silver-plated brass platter with fine cutwork, made in Lahore
$93.00
Pass something around the table on a piece worked this fine and the serving itself becomes part of the welcome. A sixteen-inch brass leaf, its whole body cut into lacework...
Antique Afghan brass ewer (aftaba) with hand-engraved floral band, tall neck and curved spout
$110.00
Before a meal, a ewer like this was carried to the guest so water could be poured over the hands — a small courtesy that opened the table. In Afghan...
Brass galloping horse sculpture table lamp with antique polish finish, made in Lahore
$262.00
A horse at full gallop is one of the oldest images of freedom there is. This one is caught mid-stride and finished to look as though it's been in the...
Antique octagonal copper paandaan with naqsheen nigari engraving, 7.5 inches wide
$140.00
Paan was offered first. Before the meal, before the conversation settled — the paandaan came out. In the old household ledgers of the subcontinent, you find the paandaan in the...
Antique engraved copper paandaan with lidded spice canisters on the lid and hinged clasp
$152.00
When guests came, the paandaan came out. The round box was opened, the leaves and the katha and the little spices laid ready, and paan was folded and passed by...
Antique engraved copper paandaan with arched lid handle and brass scroll latch
$140.00
A paandaan travelled. Carried by its handle from room to room, set down between guests, it held everything needed to fold a paan — the leaves, the katha, the small...
Antique octagonal copper paandaan (aath pehel) with naqsheen nigari engraving, 9.5 inches wide
$161.00
The aath pehel — eight corners, eight panels — was the favoured form for the finest paandaans. More surface. More room for the engraver to work. Each panel its own...
Large antique octagonal copper paandaan with naqsheen nigari engraving, 10 inches wide
$174.00
The largest paandaan in the collection. Ten inches across, seven inches deep — this is not the personal piece kept in a pocket or carried easily. This one sat on...
Antique round copper paandaan with naqsheen nigari engraving, 6 inches diameter, over 100 years old
$114.00
The paandaan was sized to the household. A smaller home kept a smaller box — still copper, still engraved, still placed out with the same intention. This one is six...
Antique Kashmiri copper serving pot with all-over hand-engraved floral naqashi and domed lid
$165.00
In Kashmir, a serving vessel was rarely left plain. The coppersmiths there cover a whole surface in flowers — chinar leaves, roses, vines worked so close together that no metal...
Antique Kashmiri lidded copper serving dish with full naqsheen nigari engraving, tin-lined interior
$80.00
Kashmiri copper was always recognized by its engraving. In the old suites and kitchens of the valley, the naqsheen nigari moved differently — the motifs denser, the borders more layered...
Antique solid brass milk pot with faceted hand-engraved panels and short neck
$93.00
Before refrigeration, milk was kept in brass — drawn each morning, set on a shelf, poured through the day. A pot like this one was an everyday vessel in subcontinental...
Silver-plated brass deep platter made of layered openwork leaves, made in Lahore
$93.00
Autumn is the one season that makes leaves worth keeping — and this dish is made of nothing else, a whole bed of silver leaves layered into a platter. It's...
Brass katori hand-engraved with Ayat ul Kursi calligraphy in Meena colours, made in Lahore
$19.00
Ayat ul Kursi is the verse so many of us keep close — by the door, in the car, at a bedside. Here it's engraved around a brass bowl and...
Hand-engraved brass kalam bowl with bird and floral motif on three feet, made in Lahore
5 inches diameter6 inches diameter
$61.00
Kalam is the art of telling a story in engraving — and on these bowls the story is bahaar, spring: birds and flowers worked into the brass by hand, line...
Hand-engraved brass coal-warming BBQ serving grill, made in Lahore
$190.00
A hand-engraved brass warming grill — the kind set in the middle of a dawat, coals beneath, keeping the tikka and seekh hot as the evening goes on. It's made...
Silver-plated brass tray hand-engraved with a chaand-tara crescent and star motif, made in Lahore
$80.00
A tray cut into a chaand-tara — the crescent and star that means home to so many of us, on Eid nights especially. It's made in brass in Lahore, hand-engraved...
Brass cutlery caddy with floral cutwork and two side handles, made in Lahore
$89.00
At a big dinner the cutlery has to live somewhere, and a loose pile never looks laid. This caddy gathers the forks, knives and spoons into one place and carries...
Crescent moon-shaped brass cutwork dish that casts patterned shadows, made in Lahore
$89.00
The same crescent that opens Ramzan, brought to the table in brass — and lit from the inside, throwing its pattern in light across the cloth. It's cut by hand...
Set of three brass diya candle holders in graduated sizes, made in Lahore
$35.00
Light has always been the first thing we bring to a celebration. The diya — the little lamp that's marked festivals and prayers across the subcontinent for centuries — is...
Deep hand-hammered brass serving thaal with two handles, made in Lahore
$145.00
A wide, deep brass thaal with handles on either side — the one carried out heaped with biryani, pulao, or fruit when the table's full. It's hand-hammered from brass in...
Cast brass leaf-shaped trinket dish with painted edge, made in Lahore
$17.00 – $33.00
Every home has a place where the small things land — keys and coins by the door, rings by the basin, dried fruit set out when people come. This is...
Brass peacock ashtray with fanned tail, made in Lahore
$29.00
The peacock runs through this region's art — its miniatures, its textiles, its old brass — a symbol of beauty and renewal for centuries. Here its fanned tail opens into...
Brass peacock-shaped surma daani kohl pot, made in Lahore
$43.00
A brass peacock that holds your surma — a kohl pot in the shape of the bird, the way they were kept in Mughal dressing rooms. It's made by hand...
Hand-engraved qalamzani brass sugar and condiment bowl with spoon, made in Lahore
$24.00 – $46.00
A little lidded brass pot with its own spoon — for sugar by the chai tray, for salt or chutney at the table, for the small rituals a home runs...
Brass swan multipurpose holder and vase, made in Lahore
$71.00
The swan has decorated homes across the subcontinent for generations — and on this one, the beauty comes with a quiet use folded into it. It's finished by hand in...
Pair of brass butterfly candle holders, made in Lahore
$71.00
There's a way a table looks when it's lit for people you love — flames set here and there, and something among them that looks alive. These are a pair...
Round silver-plated brass dish with intricate cutwork rim, made in Lahore
$93.00
The same pierced brasswork that screened the windows of old homes — jali — opened out flat into a dish: fifteen inches across, its whole rim cut away into lace....
Set of hand-formed glazed ceramic birds in blue, made in Multan
$18.00
Multan has shaped and painted clay for centuries — the blue-glazed pottery the city is named for, turned and fired by hand in family kilns. These small birds come from...
Petite Victorian cast brass easel display stand, made in Lahore
$34.00
A little brass easel for the things worth standing up — a framed photograph, a postcard, a small painting, a book left open at a page you like. It's cast...
Antique Indian brass surahi with kalam engraving, 13 inches tall, over 80 years old
$61.00
The surahi — the tall-necked brass vessel with a curved spout — was the pouring piece in South Asian households for centuries. Water, rosewater, ceremonial drinks at weddings. The shape...
Pair of hand-cut solid copper cutwork pendant hanging lamps, made in Lahore
$207.00
Light through pierced metal never falls flat — it throws the pattern up across the ceiling and down the walls, the way lamps have lit courtyards and shrines for centuries....
Hand-hammered copper kashkul, a boat-shaped Sufi dervish bowl, made in Lahore
$80.00
The kashkul began as a wandering bowl — carried by Sufi dervishes who filled it with whatever was given after they'd recited poetry and offered counsel on the road. This...
Handmade hammered copper paella pan with two handles, made in Peshawar
$174.00
Some pans are made to disappear into a cupboard. This handmade copper paella pan is made to sit in the middle of the table — full, steaming, everyone reaching in....
Hand-hammered copper pomegranate ornament that opens into a bowl, made in Lahore
$66.00
Across this region, the pomegranate has meant plenty and good fortune for as long as anyone can name — on the table, in poetry, at weddings. Here it is rendered...
Pair of brass dragonfly tealight candle holders, made in Lahore
$61.00
Tealights set down the length of a table, and the light catching something with wings — that's the moment these were made for. They're handcrafted in brass in Lahore, the...
Round brass tray with a golden flamingo motif, made in Lahore
$75.00
Most of our trays carry the old motifs — vines, peacocks, leaves. This one carries a pair of flamingos, which is exactly the surprise it's meant to be. It's made...
Brass salad server set with feather-detail handles, made in Lahore
$71.00
The serving pieces come out only when it matters — when the table's laid for guests and even the greens get handed round with a little ceremony. These are made...
Fine filigree brass cutwork plate caddy, made in Lahore
$215.00
The same pierced brasswork — jali — that screened the windows of old havelis, brought to the scale of the table. A round caddy cut all over in fine filigree,...
Brass cake knife with fine filigree handle, made in Lahore
$43.00
The knife you bring out for the cake — the birthday, the wedding, the first slice everyone photographs. Its handle is brass, cut into fine filigree like lacework, fitted to...
Brass serving cutlery with flower-vine handles, made in Lahore
$61.00
It's the serving pieces that finish a table — the cheese knife, the salad servers, the things a guest actually picks up. These wear flowering vines down every handle. Each...
$5.00
Add our gift-wrapping service to your order. Each piece is wrapped in its own Maeraas pouch with butter paper and a finishing sticker, with our story, thank-you and care cards....
Pair of brass flower-bloom candle holders, made in Lahore
$66.00
Flowers on the table that never wilt — lit for dinner, and still there long after cut stems would have dropped. This is a pair of brass blooms — petals,...
Footed brass tray hand-etched with sparrow and floral motifs, made in Lahore
$80.00
The gardens and birds that fill this region's art — its miniatures, its poetry, its tilework — gathered onto one brass tray and etched in by hand. Every line is...
Brass rearing horse sculpture table lamp in a golden finish, made in Lahore
$326.00
The horse has stood for strength and grace for as long as people have made art — and reared up on its hind legs, it's pure movement caught still. Here...
Golden lotus-shaped brass candle holder, made in Lahore
$24.00
A quiet evening, a candle lit, and the light catching the petals of a brass lotus — that's what this piece is for. The Golden Lotus candle holder is cast...
Pair of hammered brass bowl stands in two heights, made in Peshawar
LargeMediumSet of 2
$89.00 – $200.00
One evening they hold candles, the next they're snack bowls, and by summer they're a bird bath out in the garden — a pair of brass stands that won't be...