Autumn Leaves Silverplated Brass Deep Platter
$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 made by hand in brass in Lahore and silver-plated, the entire body built from overlapping leaves with the metal left...
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.
Autumn Leaves Silverplated Brass Deep Platter
$93.00