Oval brass tray with hammered centre and cutwork edges on three feet, made in Lahore

Zahra Luxe Oval Brass Tray

$52.00

Some things deserve a place of their own — two cups of chai, the perfume bottles on a dresser, the day's jewellery set down at night. This is the tray that gives them one. Made by hand in brass in Lahore, its centre hammered and its edges cut into a...

The Craft

Hand-Hammering

Raised from a flat sheet under thousands of hammer blows, the dimpled surface a record of the making.

Used in this piece

Cutwork

Openwork lace pierced clean through the metal by hand with a fine needle.

Used in this piece

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.

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