Set it near a lamp. Onyx is translucent at this thickness, and the rim lights from within when a light source sits low beside it. Peach and cream means it enters a warm room without adding a color you have to manage — against oak, brass and unbleached linen it settles into the palette. Put it in a cool grey room instead and it becomes the one warm thing on the surface.

Bands run horizontally across the body. Cream, then apricot, then a fine gold line, then cream again. Look down into it and the same bands read as rings, tightening toward the center where the stone grew slowest. The carver left the surface raw, so you can see the tool travel across the interior, fine and radial, the way a record reads. One of a kind. The exact piece you'll receive.

STRATA · VEIN · WEIGHT

STRATA — Single-source Balochistan onyx, hand-carved, finished in San Diego.
VEIN — Cream and peach banding with fine gold lines, reading as concentric rings from the base. Raw surface with the carver's tool travel left in.
WEIGHT — 2 lb of multi-vein onyx.

DETAILS

• Hand-carved Balochistan onyx
• 6" × 6" × 2"
• Sealed in beeswax. No resins, no dyes.
• Raw finish — matte, with the tool marks left in rather than polished out.
• Wipe dry; keep out of standing water.

IN THE TRADE

Onyx is assigned in crystal practice to the root chakra and kept for grounding and protection. We report the tradition; we don't claim it.

The name is Greek — onyx, "fingernail" — for the banding, the same layered translucence you get holding a nail up to light. Banded stone like this was being cut into vessels in the Egyptian Old Kingdom, which makes a shallow bowl for small precious things roughly the oldest job anyone has given the material.

ORIGIN

Carved 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 raw surface is a decision, not an unfinished one. The strata occurs once. Earth, unobscured.

IN THE BOX

• Cotton tote
• Hand-stamped story card
• Catalog card

SAÉA — shelter · refugio · پناه
Made by earth. Shaped by hand. Kept by you.

SAÉA Stones

Onyx is a natural stone, stunning but not bulletproof. Wipe with a soft, dry cloth. Avoid harsh detergents. Read more here.

Each piece is sealed with food-grade beeswax. Refresh every 6 to 12 months by warming a small amount of oil or wax into the surface, then buffing gently with a soft cloth.

Free ground shipping on U.S. orders over $100. Hand-packed in San Diego using recyclable, plastic-free materials, usually shipped within 1-2 business days.

30-day returns on unused, undamaged pieces. Email us at hello@saeadesigns.com and we will send a return label.

If a piece arrives damaged in transit, send photos of it as it came out of the box to hello@saeadesigns.com and we will refund or exchange it.

SAÉA is a small design studio in San Diego, California.

Each piece begins as raw onyx in the mountains of Balochistan, hand-carved by artisans, then finished, photographed, and shipped from San DIego, California.

Every SAÉA Jewel is made to order in our San Diego studio.