Product Description
This rare Bidriware flask, lovingly crafted in Deccan India around 1800, stands approximately 13 cm tall and is adorned with intricate Mughal-inspired patterns of geometry, birds, and foliage, all lovingly inlaid with silver into a darkened brass-zinc alloy whose gentle patina speaks of centuries passed. Bidriware is one of India’s most revered metalwork traditions: artisans cast the alloy, blacken it using a unique soil-and-sal-ammoniac process, and then inlay the shimmering silver to produce designs that captivate with their luminous contrast. This flask, with its refined ornamental language and authentic aged charm, is a particularly sought-after example—rare in both form and preservation.
If This Piece Could Talk…
“Born in the candlelit workshops of Deccan India around 1800, I carry the touch of artisan hands that pressed silver into my surface to conjure geometric rhythms, birds in flight, and foliage in bloom. Worn by time, I now whisper across oceans of history, hoping to rest where someone will continue telling my story.”
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