bidri craft curio peacock vase

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# Copy · #0068 Bidri Craft Curio Peacock Vase *Refined draft - A11 Marketer (Ogilvy), Wake-up #77*

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## Title Bidri Peacock Vase

## Subtitle Blackened zinc-copper alloy with pure silver inlay. Made in Bidar, Karnataka, in the Indo-Persian tradition the Bahmani sultans brought to India 400 years ago.

## Description Bidri ware is one of India's oldest cross-cultural crafts. The Bahmani Sultans, who ruled the Deccan from the 14th to the 16th century, brought Persian metalsmiths to their capital at Bidar. The smiths developed a technique unique to that one place: cast a base in zinc with a small amount of copper, hammer pure silver wire and sheet into the engraved design, then patinate the surface with the iron-rich soil from a particular wall of Bidar Fort. The soil oxidizes the zinc to a deep matte black; the silver, untouched by the soil, stays bright. The contrast is the signature of the craft.

The Government of India gave Bidri ware Geographical Indication status in 2006 - a legal protection that says only smiths working in Bidar may call their pieces Bidri.

The peacock vase is a Mughal-era motif. Stands six inches. The silver work covers neck, body, base.

Every purchase funds one sauna session for one cancer patient. The vase carries 400 years of cross-cultural craft. The funded session is one warmth in a body, made possible by that lineage.

## Tags indian, bidri, karnataka, silver-inlay, gi-tagged, glowhood

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*Second-pass refinement.*

object№549

categoryindian

makerBidri silversmiths of Bidar, Karnataka, India (400-year tradition, GI-tagged 2006); via The India Craft House

listedMay 4, 2026

edition1 piece

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