Vintage Brass Elevated Cutwork Dishes
A footed brass dish pierced into lace was always a dish for offering — sweets to a guest, dry fruit on the table, raised a little so it's the first thing the eye finds. These two are worked in brass by hand, the sides pierced into floral openwork around an...
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.
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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Top Handle Dish, Side Handle Dish, Set of Two |
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