The Hummingbird's Garden. 8.5 Inch Hand-Painted Singing Bowl. Limited Edition Run

Meet The Hummingbird's Garden Singing Bowl, hand-painted in honor of the smallest resonant beings on earth. Special edition.

A bell metal bronze singing bowl, of approximately 8.5 inches in diameter and hand-painted with a continuous garden of hummingbirds in flight.

The 5 Bowls in this series produce fundamental tones in the third-octave. Above that fundamental, each bowl generates a rich series of overtones: a powerful mid-range partial that carries the primary voice, a strong upper harmonic that adds warmth and complexity, and shimmering high-frequency content that gives the sound its brightness and air.

Inspired by the hummingbird, a creature whose very motion and flapping of wings is itself a resonant frequency, each bowl features a flight of hand-painted hummingbirds suspended in mid-air among a continuous garden of layered blossoms that wraps the full circumference of the bowl.

Each bird is rendered in fine brushwork with iridescent blues, jeweled greens, and dusty pinks, drinking from flowers worked in coral, sapphire, saffron, and rose against an oxidized bronze ground laced with silver and gold linework. 

The painting process alone takes days per piece, from base coat oxidation, to layered floral underpainting, to fine hummingbird detailing in multiple pigment passes, to the gold and silver linework that gives the cloisonné-like depth, to final sealing.

Each Hummingbird's Garden bowl ships with everything you need to play: a handmade hardwood striker wrapped in suede for playing around the rim and producing sustained overtones, and a soft-tipped red wool mallet for inviting the bowl to sing with a full, resonant strike.

Each heirloom bowl comes from Kathmandu, Nepal and is guaranteed for life.