Amira Silverplated Brass Cutwork Leaf Platter
$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 — here silver-plated, for when a room calls for silver over gold. Like its brass twin, it's cut by hand...
The Craft
Hand-Hammering
Raised from a flat sheet under thousands of hammer blows, the dimpled surface a record of the making.
Cutwork
Openwork lace pierced clean through the metal by hand with a fine needle.
Used in this pieceEngraving / Qalamzani
Cut into the metal line by line with a fine steel chisel, the qalam.
Naqsheen
Floral and geometric patterns chased into the surface freehand by the naqash.
Sand Casting
Molten brass poured into a sand mould packed by hand, then broken open to free the piece.
Amira Silverplated Brass Cutwork Leaf Platter
$93.00