Vintage Victorian Style Brass Easel
$85.00
Some things are too good to lie flat in a drawer — a photograph, a handwritten letter, an open book you keep coming back to. An easel gives them somewhere to stand. This one is cast in brass in Lahore, recreated from an ornate Victorian / Art Nouveau design, sixteen...
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.
Sand Casting
Molten brass poured into a sand mould packed by hand, then broken open to free the piece.
Used in this piece
Vintage Victorian Style Brass Easel
$85.00
