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$75.00
Even the box that holds the tissues can be worth looking at — this one is silver-plated brass, worked all over in subcontinental florals. It's made by hand in Lahore,...
$93.00
A round brass dish split into three — one for almonds, one for raisins, one for whatever's left out for guests who linger. It's made in brass in Lahore in...
$140.00
Nur means light — and where its twin Mashal stands on black marble, this one rises from white, the same silver cutwork in a softer key. It's made by hand...
$75.00
There's a kind of bowl that sits out whether or not there's anything in it — the one that finishes a shelf or a console on its own. Pierced in...
$135.00
In the Swat Valley, woodcarving and ceramic tile-making have existed alongside each other for generations — the geometric and the floral, the dark grain of the wood and the painted...
$80.00
A tray made for occasions — jashan means celebration, and this is the one you bring out when there's something to mark. Twelve inches across, it's hammered by hand at...
$157.00
Mashal means torch — the flame once carried ahead to light the way. This one stands still on a block of black marble, a candle lit at its top instead....
$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...
$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...
$93.00
A properly laid table has a serving piece for everything, and a matched set in silver says someone cared. This is that set — fork, spoon, flat spoon and ladle,...
$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...
$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...
$52.00
Some things deserve a place of their own — two cups of chai, the perfume bottles on a dresser, the day's jewellery set down at night. This is the tray...
$114.00
Some dishes deserve to come to the table in something as worked as what's inside them. This is copper, engraved corner to corner by hand, with a fitted lid you...
$145.00
In South Asian cooking, the spices are the whole point — and the masala dabba is where they live. This is that box: the round brass tin that's sat at...
$173.00
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....
$260.00
A karahi is the sound of a kitchen at full tilt — the fast sizzle of karahi gosht, the hiss of a bhuna coming together at the last minute. Round,...
$144.00
In Peshawar, the chai josh never really leaves the table. It sits to one side through the afternoon, keeping the kahwa hot, ready to fill the next cup before you've...
$61.00
Not everything needs a full tray — the perfume on a dresser, the day's jewellery, a few dates handed round when someone drops in. Some things just want a slim,...
$140.00
In the Swat valley up north, woodcarving is a craft of its own — doors, screens and frames cut and painted by hand, no two finished quite alike. This mirror...
$114.00
There's a particular calm to a Buddha's face — eyes lowered, mid-smile — the kind that settles a room without asking anything of it. This one is cast from an...
$140.00
There's always one bowl on the table that sits higher than the rest — fruit at its ripest, wrapped sweets at Eid, raised up where everyone can see. This is...
$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....
$325.00
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...
$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....
$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...
$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...
$131.00
The dastarkhwan was always full — dry fruit, sweets, something pickled, all set down at once for whoever walked in. This piece gathers three of those into one: three brass...
$89.00
In the old homes here, a guest was never met empty-handed — a dish of dry fruit or sweets was set out before a word was said. This is a...
$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...
$93.00
A silver-plated brass box made to hold the Quran — hand-engraved all over, set with a red aqeeq stone at its centre. It's worked by hand in Lahore, the brass...
$169.00
A brass bowl held up by three lions — silver-plated, standing guard the way lions have on thrones and gateways across the subcontinent. It's made by hand in brass in...
$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...
$34.00 – $38.00
Surma pots were made in every scale — from the finger-sized to the ceremonial piece that sat at the centre of a dressing tray and was rarely moved. Eight to...
$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...
$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...
$19.00 – $40.00
There is a small ritual to arriving home: the door, and the keys that go where they always go. A key holder is one of those quiet objects you reach...
$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...
$26.00
In the homes of the subcontinent, rosewater had its own ritual object — a gulaab paash, the sprinkler with the long neck and the perforated top that releases a fine...
$10.00 – $16.00
Kohl was a daily thing — lifted from its pot with a thin rod each morning, drawn along the lash line, the surma daani kept where a hand could reach...
$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...
$173.00
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...
$52.00
Before a guest had said a word, the sweets were already out — and the dish they sat in mattered. This is one of those: a footed brass oval pierced...
$157.00
Tea was an event in these homes — the good set carried out for guests, the pot set down, sugar and milk passed round, the whole thing a small performance...
$152.00
Tea in the old homes was not a drink. It was a ritual with its own objects. The tray came first, set down with the kettle, the sugar pot, the...
$57.00 – $102.00
A footed brass dish pierced into lace was always a dish for offering — sweets to a guest, dry fruit on the table, raised a little so it's the first...
$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...
$15.00
A coal, a piece of agar, a thread of smoke carried through the house before guests arrive or prayers begin — the agardaan has held that ritual across Persia and...
$10.00 – $16.00
On a dressing table there was always a surma daani — the little pot that held the kohl, the thin rod drawn out and run along the lash line each...
$16.00 – $19.00
The kohl that lined a generation of eyes was kept close — on a dressing table, within reach each morning, the rod drawn out and run along the lash line....