Silver Barware

The silver barware collection covers silver jugs and pitchers, ice buckets and wine coolers, and the nut and chip bowls that come out beside them. Coasters, ice tongs, wine glasses, wine bottle holders, a beer mug and a silver flask fill out the range, all of it silver plated, from around ₹890. On a jug, an ice bucket or a wine glass, the outside carries the tarnish-resistant coat and the inside is left as bare silver.

Who It Is Best Suited For

A jug, an ice bucket and a wine cooler are what a household buys when it is setting itself up to entertain, as a wedding gift, an anniversary piece, a housewarming, or something put aside into a trousseau. The piece is often engraved with a name or a date for the couple. The flask, the beer mug and the ice tools go to one man who hosts, taken one piece at a time and usually engraved with initials, as a Father's Day gift for him. On the coasters and the smaller nut bowls the number is settled before the piece is, and a corporate order runs one design across a headcount with a logo or a set of initials on each, and an invitation gift is ordered against a guest list.

Putting Together a Silver Bar Set

Nothing here is boxed, so a silver bar set is assembled from single pieces bought to work together. An ice bucket needs a pair of tongs or a scoop with it, and coasters for wherever the glass is set down afterwards. A jug or a pitcher carries the drink itself, so it goes with the wine glasses and goblets it is poured into, on its way from the bar to the dining table. A wine cooler or a wine bottle holder takes over where a bottle is being served rather than a jug. The nut and chip bowls sit alongside any of it, and something to eat comes out whether or not anything is poured.

What Silver Adds at the Bar

Glass and steel are the usual materials for a jug, a bowl and a cooler. Silver does not react with what is put into it, so a jug of nimbu pani or a bowl of salted nuts picks up no metallic taste and leaves behind no stain or odour, where steel and aluminium both do. Silver also carries heat better than any other metal, so an ice bucket or a wine cooler goes cold to the hand as soon as it is filled. The nut and chip bowls carry no coating on any surface, so what is put in one sits directly on silver. A piece bought in silver holds its material value, where glass and steel do not.

Care and Delivery

The nut and chip bowls are left unlacquered, since food sits directly against the only surface they have, and they can be cleaned at home with a standard silver polish. Jugs and pitchers, ice buckets and the wine glasses take the soft moist cloth on the outside and the polish on the inside. Coasters, ice tongs and scoops, and the wine bottle holders never meet a drink at all and carry the tarnish-resistant coat throughout, so a soft moist cloth is all they need and neither silver polish nor an abrasive should touch them. Engraving is cut into the silver, stays legible for the life of the piece, and adds a few working days before dispatch. Ships free across India in gift-ready packaging.

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