Private Commissions

Dinnerware and cutlery made to your brief: original artwork, a family monogram, a glaze of your own or a new shape. A chest made for your home can be part of it.

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An ivory plate hand-painted with lotus flowers and rice stalks in cobalt and gold, on a walnut table among tracing-paper sketches of the motif — Original artwork, from tracing to painted plate. Concept visualisation.

Who a commission suits

Households with something particular in mind, who want it made properly.

For most households, a Signature Edition or a Personally Composed Collection is the better route. A private commission suits you when the idea is your own: a mark, a colour, a shape or a size our catalogue does not hold.

It takes longer and costs more, because it begins with design and a physical sample. Every request is reviewed by our design team. Some ideas need a sample before we can commit; if one is not feasible, we tell you why.

A plate tipped over a basin of cobalt glaze, the glaze sheeting off its rim in a thick stream — Glazing, as we intend it. Concept visualisation.

Signature Editions
Numbered dinner sets and cutlery sets, made to order for your number of guests, with your name engraved on the plaque.
From ৳35,000
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Personally Composed Collections
Choose compatible pieces, quantities and finishes from our catalogue. You receive an itemized proposal before anything is made.
From ৳1,20,000
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Private Commissions
Dinnerware and cutlery from your own brief: original artwork, a monogram, a new glaze or a new shape.
From ৳3,00,000plus a design fee
How the design fee works

What a commission can be

Five ideas we would explore with you; each is a concept, and none has been made yet.

A family monogram, drawn for you and applied to the rim of every plate.
A glaze developed to sit with the walls of your dining room, approved on a sample first.
Artwork taken from a nakshi kantha stitched by someone in your family.
A collection for twelve, with serving pieces for a full Eid lunch.
A chest built to fit a particular sideboard or alcove.

A glaze at close range: cobalt deepening to turquoise in the throwing rings of a plate, flecked with iron, with a brown rim — A glaze, tested on a plate. Concept visualisation.

A blank, brushed bronze-coloured plate and an engraving burin on a walnut desk — A plaque before engraving. Concept visualisation.

Hands tapping a dovetailed walnut corner closed with a wooden mallet, shavings on the bench — A dovetailed walnut chest. Concept visualisation.

Testing the glaze, preparing the plaque, joining the chest. Concept visualisation.

The design fee

Original work begins with a paid design phase, so we can draw before we promise.

The design fee is ৳10,000–25,000, depending on the scope of the brief.

We tell you plainly what is feasible, and what it may cost, before any fee is due.

Design fee: ৳10,000–25,000
What it covers: Design development, drawings and an agreed number of revisions.
When it is due: After the brief, before design work begins.
Credit against your commission: Whether the fee is credited against your commission is being confirmed, and will be written into your agreement.

From brief to presentation

Five stages, and nothing moves to the next until you have approved the last.

Blue-glazed plates and bowls resting in navy velvet places, in an open walnut chest on a dark table under one warm lamp — Presentation, the last of the five stages. Concept visualisation.

Brief
We meet by video, look at your room, your table and whatever inspired the idea, and agree what the design must do.
Design proposal
We send drawings, colour references and a feasibility review, with a quote for the commission.
Sample approval
Where the work is new, we make a physical sample. Nothing goes into production until you approve it.
Production
Your collection is made to the approved sample, with progress updates as it goes.
Presentation
The finished collection is inspected, packed in its chest and delivered to you.

A commission takes longer than an edition. Your design proposal gives its timeline. Private commissions are made within our limit of 500 sets a year.

Orange flowers and green running stitches across the white cotton of a nakshi kantha — Nakshi kantha with a flower motif, Bengal. A junaid alam khan, public domain. From Bengal’s craft; not BHOJ work.

Who owns the design

Agreed for each commission, and written into your proposal.

Exclusivity: Whether it covers the artwork, a colourway or the complete design.
Photography: Whether BHOJ may photograph or show the work.
In writing: Nothing is assumed until it is in your agreement.