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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$15.00
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...
$10.00 – $16.00
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...
$10.00 – $16.00
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...
$26.00
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 —...
$26.00
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...
$16.00 – $19.00
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....
$34.00 – $38.00
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...
$16.00
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....
$89.00
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...
$106.00 – $114.00
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...
$19.00 – $40.00
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...
$157.00
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...
$52.00
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...
$152.00
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...
$57.00 – $102.00
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...
$93.00
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...
$165.00
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...
$114.00
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...
$174.00
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...
$161.00
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...
$140.00
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...
$152.00
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...
$110.00
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...
$140.00
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...
$80.00
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...