{"product_id":"amber-rosewood-saea-keepsake-box-with-lid","title":"Amber \u0026 rosewood | SAÉA Keepsake Box with Lid","description":"\u003cp\u003eA lidded box does what an open dish can't. It closes. That makes it the piece for the things you'd rather not have on display — the ring you take off but don't wear daily, earrings between wearings, a folded note, a key. On a nightstand or a shelf it reads as an object rather than as storage, which is the whole trick of it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePut it where a lamp can reach. Onyx is translucent at this thickness and the pale walls take light from the side, so the rose panel across the front warms instead of going flat. On dark wood it holds its own. On a pale surface, set it near something with weight — a stack of books, a heavy ceramic — so it doesn't drift.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOpen, it becomes a different object. The interior comes up cream and rust, and the lid propped back shows a face you never see while it's closed. Amber and caramel across the top, banded and swirled, with a cream patch at one corner and a plum line running the edge. The body is the opposite: milky white with a broad rose-mauve panel across the front and fine rust veining through it. The pull is a small square of pale green onyx set into the lid. One of a kind. The exact piece you'll receive.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eSTRATA · VEIN · WEIGHT\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSTRATA\u003c\/strong\u003e — Single-source Balochistan onyx, hand-carved, finished in San Diego.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eVEIN\u003c\/strong\u003e — Amber and caramel banding across the lid with a cream corner and a plum edge; milky white body with a broad rose-mauve panel and rust veining; banded caramel base. The photo guides you to the color; it isn't a contract.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eWEIGHT\u003c\/strong\u003e — 2 lb of multi-vein onyx.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eDETAILS\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHand-carved Balochistan onyx, body and lid\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e5\" × 4\" × 2.5\" · 2 lb\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eSealed in beeswax. No resins, no dyes.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eFitted stone lid with a carved onyx pull. The lid sits by weight — there is no hinge and no catch.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eWipe dry; keep out of standing water.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eIN THE TRADE\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOnyx is assigned in crystal practice to the root chakra and kept for grounding and protection. We report the tradition; we don't claim it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe material's other name came from a container, not the other way around. An \u003cem\u003ealabastron\u003c\/em\u003e was a small stoppered jar for perfumed oil, and the stone came to be called alabaster because that is what the jars were cut from. The vessel named the material. A box like this is the older use.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eORIGIN\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCarved by master hands on Mehrgarh-adjacent ground, among the oldest making-grounds on Earth. Finished in San Diego, with no shortcut that trades honesty for shine. The strata occurs once. Earth, unobscured.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eIN THE BOX\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eCotton tote\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHand-stamped story card\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eCatalog card\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSAÉA — shelter · refugio · پناه\u003cbr\u003e\nMade by earth. Shaped by hand. Kept by you.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"SAÉA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54713962594517,"sku":null,"price":84.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/7628\/2581\/files\/OnyxBox-ProductShot1SideViewClosed.png?v=1787969760","url":"https:\/\/saeadesigns.com\/products\/amber-rosewood-saea-keepsake-box-with-lid","provider":"SAÉA","version":"1.0","type":"link"}