Vintage Indian Copper Serving Dishes
Indian copper serving dishes with fitted lids were part of the spread at every important meal — the kind of spread where the dishes themselves were meant to be seen before the food came out of them. The lids came off at the table, not in the kitchen. These two...
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.
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Copper Lid Knob, Brass Lid Knob |
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