Not everything worth keeping was made yesterday.
The Heritage collection is a small, curated selection of antique and vintage brass pieces — sourced across Pakistan, verified for age and quality, and brought together for those who want something with a history already built in.
Each piece has been found and chosen by hand. Most are one of a kind. Slight variations and imperfections are not flaws — they are the record of a life already lived.
If you are looking for something new, the rest of the collection is for you. If you want something old, start here.
— Amara, Founder
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$13.00
A coal, a piece of agar, a thread of smoke carried through the house before guests arrive or prayers begin — the agardaan has held that ritual across Persia and...
$9.00 – $14.00
On a dressing table there was always a surma daani — the little pot that held the kohl, the thin rod drawn out and run along the lash line each...
$9.00 – $14.00
Kohl was a daily thing — lifted from its pot with a thin rod each morning, drawn along the lash line, the surma daani kept where a hand could reach...
$23.00
At South Asian weddings for centuries, a guest was greeted before they sat down. A thin mist of rosewater — released from a long-necked bottle with a perforated top —...
$23.00
In the homes of the subcontinent, rosewater had its own ritual object — a gulaab paash, the sprinkler with the long neck and the perforated top that releases a fine...
$14.00 – $17.00
The kohl that lined a generation of eyes was kept close — on a dressing table, within reach each morning, the rod drawn out and run along the lash line....
$30.00 – $34.00
Surma pots were made in every scale — from the finger-sized to the ceremonial piece that sat at the centre of a dressing tray and was rarely moved. Eight to...
$14.00
Kohl was lifted from its pot each morning with a thin rod and drawn along the lash line — a small daily gesture kept in brass on a dressing table....
$120.00
Water stored in brass was a household practice across the subcontinent for centuries — not superstition, but understood. The vessel mattered. And so the vessel was made well: hand-engraved, given...
$120.00
Indian copper serving dishes with fitted lids were part of the spread at every important meal — the kind of spread where the dishes themselves were meant to be seen...
$17.00 – $36.00
There is a small ritual to arriving home: the door, and the keys that go where they always go. A key holder is one of those quiet objects you reach...
$140.00
Tea was an event in these homes — the good set carried out for guests, the pot set down, sugar and milk passed round, the whole thing a small performance...
$47.00
Before a guest had said a word, the sweets were already out — and the dish they sat in mattered. This is one of those: a footed brass oval pierced...
$135.00
Tea in the old homes was not a drink. It was a ritual with its own objects. The tray came first, set down with the kettle, the sugar pot, the...
$51.00 – $89.00
A footed brass dish pierced into lace was always a dish for offering — sweets to a guest, dry fruit on the table, raised a little so it's the first...
$85.00
Before refrigeration, milk was kept in brass — drawn each morning, set on a shelf, poured through the day. A pot like this one was an everyday vessel in subcontinental...
$148.00
In Kashmir, a serving vessel was rarely left plain. The coppersmiths there cover a whole surface in flowers — chinar leaves, roses, vines worked so close together that no metal...
$102.00
The paandaan was sized to the household. A smaller home kept a smaller box — still copper, still engraved, still placed out with the same intention. This one is six...
$156.00
The largest paandaan in the collection. Ten inches across, seven inches deep — this is not the personal piece kept in a pocket or carried easily. This one sat on...
$144.00
The aath pehel — eight corners, eight panels — was the favoured form for the finest paandaans. More surface. More room for the engraver to work. Each panel its own...
$127.00
A paandaan travelled. Carried by its handle from room to room, set down between guests, it held everything needed to fold a paan — the leaves, the katha, the small...
$135.00
When guests came, the paandaan came out. The round box was opened, the leaves and the katha and the little spices laid ready, and paan was folded and passed by...
$97.00
Before a meal, a ewer like this was carried to the guest so water could be poured over the hands — a small courtesy that opened the table. In Afghan...
$127.00
Paan was offered first. Before the meal, before the conversation settled — the paandaan came out. In the old household ledgers of the subcontinent, you find the paandaan in the...
$72.00
Kashmiri copper was always recognized by its engraving. In the old suites and kitchens of the valley, the naqsheen nigari moved differently — the motifs denser, the borders more layered...
Some pieces are older than us. The Heritage Archive gathers antique and vintage brass and copper, Surma Daanis (kohl pots), Gulaab Paash (rosewater sprinklers) and other rare finds, cleaned and restored by hand. Pieces that have already lived on family tables for generations, ready for the next.