Silver Cutlery & Tableware

A silver cutlery set is built here one place setting at a time, in six design lines of dinner spoon, fork and dessert spoon. Silver plated katoris, halwa bowls, quarter plates, platters and tumblers sit alongside them, with sterling silver plates and soup bowls built around a fine white porcelain body. Prices start from around ₹1,050. Five of the six lines carry the katori, the platter and the tumbler as well, so pieces bought years apart still match.

Who It Is Best Suited For

Cutlery, katoris and tumblers are counted per diner, so a table being furnished, for a wedding or set aside into a trousseau, settles its quantity before it settles a design line. Six to eight of each cover a household, and twelve or more suit one that entertains regularly. One platter or one of the sterling plates carries an occasion on its own, given to one person for an anniversary, for Mother's Day, or as a gift for her, and it is the scale of the piece rather than a headcount that decides it.

Choosing Between the Two Ranges

The two ranges here run from ₹1,050 at one end to ₹79,100 at the other, and they are bought in different ways. Silver plated cutlery costs ₹1,050 to ₹1,250 a piece across Sonata, Zeus, Fluted, Aster, Wave and Chandrika. A line is chosen once and then added to per head over the years. The plated quarter plate is made in Zeus and Aster, so a setting built in Chandrika, Wave or Fluted takes its plate from the sterling range or serves from the platter. Dinner plates, deep plates, quarter plates, soup bowls and bowls are built in 92.5 sterling silver around a fine white porcelain body, from ₹11,750 to ₹79,100, and each one is bought as a finished object rather than as the first piece of a set.

What Silver Adds at the Table

Steel is what an Indian table is normally laid with. Silver tableware is kept and passed on instead of being replaced, and a name or a date cut into a spoon or a katori stays legible for the life of the piece. Silver is also what is given at Indian weddings, and a dining piece is used from the day it arrives rather than shelved. On everything food touches here the surface is bare silver. A spoon, a katori, a platter and a plate have only the one surface, and it is the one the food sits on, so the tarnish-resistant coat Episode puts on the rest of its work is left off them entirely.

Care and Delivery

Silver cutlery, katoris, halwa bowls, platters, the butter dish and every plate in both ranges are left unlacquered for food contact and can be cleaned at home with a standard silver polish. Tumblers are built differently, coated on the outside and left bare inside, so the outside is wiped with a soft moist cloth and never meets polish or an abrasive. Sterling pieces come with an Episode certificate of authenticity and a guarantee card. Ships free across India in gift-ready packaging.

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