This Puginesque handle comes from a pickle fork. It seems almost unbelievable now that the late 19th century home was replete with every sort of implement to skewer gherkins and anchovies or the like.

I went to the new Islamic galleries at the British Museum and, in one of the cases there is an album made by a 19th-century Persian woman. The open page had a cypress tree illustration, cut out of pink paper. We photographed it and used it as a pattern to pierce out the shape from silver sheet.

The title reflects the surreal absurdity of this object.