Large Antique Hand Chased Persian Middle Eastern India Brass Copper Tray Charger
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An Ode To Camel: Through The Beauty and Elegance of An Antique Copper Tray Who can imagine desert civilizations could have been possible without camels? For thousands of years, this humble yet reliable beast of burden with its steady hoofs, traversed the Hindus valley, the Arabian and Middle Eastern deserts, the great North African desert, and the great Silk Road that linked the East and the West... the great caravan of camel trains reach back to time immemorial and is still very active in some parts of the world today. Even Marco Polo had to rely on this animal to reach Peking. In this age of automobiles and airplanes, few stop to reflect what camels have contributed to humankind besides being an exotic species in the zoo. Yet if we are to select a hero from desert region of the world for a Medal of Distinguished Service, none deserves it more than our big humped friend Camel. It's in this spirit we can appreciate this large gorgeous, hand-hammered, and Repousse-decorated silver tone copper tray. In a central medallion, in the middle of a landscape of trees, mountains, rockscape, goat and leaping deer, surrounded by concentric bands of meticulously itched patterns, ending with flower petal lobed border, we see the portrait of a large saddled camel, healthy and strong, its head raised high and looking into distance, marching forward
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