Lily Silverplated Hand Engraved Brass Pedestal Bowl
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 that bowl. It's hand-engraved in Lahore, line by line, then silver-plated so the pattern catches the light, and raised on...
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 pieceSand Casting
Molten brass poured into a sand mould packed by hand, then broken open to free the piece.