Madhubani Fish Table Clock - Hand-Painted Copper & Wood Desk Clock indian art table decor and mosques to filter light

and mosques to filter light while keeping what's behind it private — gets an unexpected treatment here: a bold magenta

the henna motif makes it a fitting gift for weddings

the bird caught mid-display rather than at rest

the black-and-white chevron border on the base is hand-painted by our studio artisans to complement the distressed finish on the head itself

Madhubani Fish Table Clock - Hand-Painted Copper & Wood Desk Clock indian art table decor and mosques to filter lightCopper has moved through Indian homes for millennia in vessels, in temple lamps, in the water we're told to drink for good health. Here, it becomes the canvas for another old tradition: Madhubani, Bihar's folk art of fish, fertility and abundance. Two large fish arc toward the centre, two smaller ones echo them below, every scale and fin picked out in fine black linework directly on the copper sheet. In Indian iconography, a pair of fish is itself an