'Pallava' Pillar Candle Holder Set of 2 in Wood

Provenance

Printed wood pillar candle holders with a botanical motif and metal ring handles, from the North Indian decorative woodcraft tradition. The Pallava design draws its surface vocabulary from the garden: the leaf-and-growth pattern that in Indian decorative art appears in the painted borders of Mughal manuscripts, in the block-printed textiles of Sanganer and Bagru, in the marginal ornament of South Indian temple sculpture. The botanical form as repeat pattern, brought inside.

In Sanskrit botanical poetry, the pallava is the new shoot — the tender emerging leaf, still translucent, still holding the green of its becoming. It is the most delicate stage of a plant's growth: before the leaf hardens, before it carries the full weight of its season. These holders bring that quality to candlelight, where the botanical forms become both pattern and silhouette as the light moves across the surface.

Disclaimer

• These holders are handcrafted in wood with a printed surface. Variations in tone and colour are a natural feature of the process.
• Minor differences in print registration or surface texture should be understood as the signature of individual craft, not a defect.