Hand Painted Brass Footed Fruit Bowl

Name: Hand Painted Brass Footed Fruit Bowl
Brand: PEETAL PARAMPARA
SKU: PP-BR-DEC-BOW-111
Price: 8099.0 INR
Availability: InStock

A brass fruit bowl on a turned pedestal foot, painted with parrots over engraved scroll.

Rs. 8,099.00

Rs. 8,099.00 Rs. 9,699.00

Price includes GST.

Weight: 2,500g

Material: Brass, unlacquered, hand painted over engraved work
Finish: Hand painted over a hatched engraved ground, polished underneath
Motif: Paired parrots, lotus rosettes and a scrolling vine across the dish
Rim: Cut into a fine sawtooth all the way round, each tooth turned up
Base: Turned pedestal foot in four stacked rings
In the box: 1 hand painted brass fruit bowl

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Estimated, not a guarantee. Dispatched from Guwahati, Monday to Saturday.

Each piece is shaped and finished by hand, so small differences in weight, size, finish and surface marking are normal and no two are identical. Colour on screen can differ from the metal in daylight. Handmade in India.

The dish is one shallow sweep of brass with no rim, and the edge is cut into a fine sawtooth all the way round, each tooth folded very slightly up. Inside, the ground has been engraved to a matte hatch and the pattern laid over it in colour, with parrots facing each other in pairs, lotus rosettes, and a vine that fills every gap between them. Red, white and gold sit against a grey ground. A printed pattern would sit flat on the metal; here the colour follows lines cut first with a graver, and those cut edges catch the light along the vine. The foot is turned in four stacked rings with a narrow engraved band at the bottom.

Technique

Hand Painted
Hand Engraved

What is it?

A fruit bowl is the wide open bowl kept on a dining or console table to hold fruit in the open, shallow enough that what sits in it stays visible from the side.

Also known as a centrepiece bowl, pital fruit basket, footed serving bowl or hand painted table bowl.

What is in the box?

1 hand painted brass fruit bowl

How do I look after it?

Wipe with a soft dry cloth. For marks, a barely damp cloth and nothing else. Dry it straight away.
The colour is a surface layer over the metal. Lemon, salt, tamarind and brass polish all lift it — the same things that bring bare brass back to a shine will take the pattern off this piece. Keep them away from the painted areas.
Any bare brass on the foot, rim or underside can be cleaned the normal way with lemon and salt. Work around the colour, not over it.
Do not soak it, do not scrub it, and keep steel wool and scouring pads away from it entirely.
Not dishwasher safe. Not microwave safe.
Keep it out of long direct sunlight. Applied colour fades where bare brass would only darken.

How was it made?

Hand Painted
Hand Engraved

Handmade in India

Every piece finished by hand

Solid metal

No plating, nothing to chip

Weighed and listed

In grams, on almost every page

Tin lining stated

Where a vessel is lined, we say so

Questions about this piece

Is this brass solid or plated?

Solid. The dish is a heavy gauge and the whole piece weighs 2,500 g, where a spun and plated bowl of the same span would be a fraction of that. Weigh it if you want the proof in your own hands.

Will it look exactly like the photograph?

The form and the pattern will match. The colour will not match exactly, because the paint is laid on by hand over the engraving and the density of each fill shifts slightly from bowl to bowl.

How big is it really?

Not yet measured, and we would rather say so than estimate. A screen flattens scale badly, and a small piece and a large one photograph much the same. The weight above is real. Tell us the space you are filling and we will measure the piece and tell you whether it fits.

Will it tarnish?

The bare brass on the underside and the foot darkens the way all unlacquered brass does. The painted face holds its colour for longer because the paint lies over the metal. Dust it dry and keep water off it.

Can I put fruit straight in it?

Whole fruit with the skin on is fine. Cut fruit sitting in its own juice is not, because the dish is painted rather than tin lined and juice will lift colour and stain the metal beneath it.

Will the paint come off?

Not from dusting. It will lift if you scrub it, soak it, or take metal polish to the painted face. Clean the painted side with a dry cloth only and keep polish for the plain brass under the rim.

Can I wash it with water?

Wipe the plain brass with a barely damp cloth and dry it at once. Do not hold the bowl under a tap or leave it in a sink, because water standing in the engraved lines works under the paint.