'Sagara' Pillar Candle Holder Set of 2 in Wood

Provenance

Printed wood pillar candle holders in a blue and multi-colour palette, with metal ring handles. Sanskrit sagara names the ocean — not simply a body of water but the totality of the sea, the horizon that exceeds understanding. In Indian decorative tradition, the blue palette of the ocean has given colour to some of the most celebrated surfaces: the indigo-dyed cottons of the Gujarat and Coromandel coasts, the painted walls of Jodhpur, the glazed tilework of the Deccan sultanates. Blue in this tradition is never a single hue but a range — from the pale sky at noon to the near-black of the deep sea at night.

These holders draw from that range. The harbour blue at the surface — the specific blue of coastal light on water — holds its quality differently as the candlelight warms it: the cooler tone appears warmer, the pattern more visible, the surface more alive. The multi-colour detail in the print adds the complexity of the sea's surface, which is rarely one colour at any single moment.

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.