Meenakari Brass Tumbler

Dimensions: 12cm high, 7.5cm high.
Code: METAL 4521

Handmade, brass and enamel tumbler made by artisans in Jaipur, Rajasthan, which would make a wonderful vase or pencil holder. The tumbler has been engraved and then coloured. The central band has repeating palmette designs with cream, red, blue, pink, and green backgrounds. Sandwiching this are foliate designs with a red background. Meenakari (also minakari) is the process of painting and colouring the surfaces of metals through enamelling. Jaipur is the jewellery capital of India and is acclaimed for outstanding meenakari work, and some of the meenakars (enamellers) also apply this art form to homewares. The word minakari means mina (paradise) and kari (to do or place something onto something else) so together it means to place paradise on an object.