Antique Kashmiri copper serving pot with all-over hand-engraved floral naqashi and domed lid

Antique Kashmiri Copper Serving Pot Dish

$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 is left bare. This antique covered pot carries that tradition on every inch. It is hand-raised from solid copper, with...

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.

Engraving / 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.

Used in this piece

Sand Casting

Molten brass poured into a sand mould packed by hand, then broken open to free the piece.

A Note from Amara
Kashmiri coppersmiths never leave a surface bare — chinar leaves, roses, vines, worked so close together no metal shows. I could not pass this one by. It is an antique, raised and engraved by hand in Kashmir long before it reached us; lift the lid in front of guests and it does exactly what it always did.

— Amara, Founder · Maeraas

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