Indian Marble Plate

Slate-clean and square, a white plate slopes inward with great confidence.

This plate is from India, and dates to the 20th century. It is marble. Stone workers in India have a long tradition of carving marble into dishes and trays, a craft best known from the Mughal-era buildings of Agra. Pale and smooth, the dish has a flat, angled border and a wide, shallow center, with faint gray veining. Corners are crisp, the surface looks lightly worn, and the base sits flat and plain.

Spartan, square, and secretly good at holding things.