Chapter IV — Harf °02
Yashmیشم
“the jade”
Nephrite jade tablet — the letter in Gulnar voice, inlaid flush in gold wire
Jade the way the Mughal lapidaries kept it: dark spinach nephrite, ground and polished until it holds light like deep water. The Gulnar letter is inlaid flush in gold wire — parchin kari — every interior line of the bloom followed by hand.
It is made to be held. The stone stays cold; the gold warms first.
- Materials
- Spinach nephrite jade · 24k gold wire inlay · Black lacquer stand
- Hand techniques
- Parchin kari gold inlay · Lapidary grinding & polish
- Hours of hand-work
- 88
- Edition
- 1 / 1
Sanad — chain of authenticity
VAO·IV·02
Sealed with a hand-numbered certificate recording the hours, the materials, and the artisan's initial — with a fragment of the material it was born from.
Commission this letter
This harf is taking shape in the atelier. One commission will be accepted; the piece is finished for its collector.