Vintage MCM Siam Samran Thailand Buddha Bronzeware

Siam Samran Bronzeware/Thailand.
8 Dinner Forks-8 Desert Forks-8 Serated Butter /Dinner Knives-8 Larger Soup Spoons-5 Smaller Coffee/Tea Spoons Bronzeware is a unique tableware handmade by skilled craftsmen inThailand, perhaps better known as Siam. Cast individually from glowing red molten bronze, each piece is then ground to the proper shape and then polished to a mirror finish by these patient craftsmen.The rosewood handles are carefully shaped with the simplest of tools, and joined with care to the bronze stem.Rosewood is a brownish-red hardwood native to the steaming tropical jungles of Southeast Asia, so called because the fragrance of roses permeates the air when the tree is hewn to ground. Naturally water resistant because of the resinous content of the fibers, rosewood is also exceptionally hard to nick or dent. In addition,rosewood is perhaps one of the world’s most beautifully grain woods and has long been usedin the finest and mostexpensive furniture&musical instruments.