# Makrana White Marble Pietra Dura Jewellery Box, 6in > Hand-polished Makrana marble jewellery box, 6 inches, with a Mughal floral pietra dura lid in lapis, malachite and carnelian inlay. **Source:** https://www.tilakmandirwala.com/products/makrana-white-marble-pietra-dura-jewellery-box-6in **Business:** Tilak Mandirwala — made-to-order marble temples (mandirs), statues and decorative handicrafts. Jaipur, Rajasthan, India. Founded 2006. **How it works:** Each piece is carved to order by the independent master sculptors TMW works with in Jaipur's Khajane Walon Ka Rasta sculptors' market. TMW designs the piece with the customer, briefs the sculptor, and follows it through to delivery and installation. **Pricing:** request-for-quote — pieces are custom, so the site carries no list prices. **Ships:** across India; export enquiries welcome. **About the image:** a design visualisation, not a photograph of stock on hand. The piece is carved to order after the design is agreed. **Availability:** made to order. ## The inlay on the lid Pietra dura, known in Rajasthan and Agra as parchin kari, is the craft of setting cut semi-precious stone flush into a marble ground so the finished surface reads as one continuous plane. The technique arrived with the Mughal ateliers of the seventeenth century, and it is the same work that covers the cenotaph screens of the Taj Mahal, a few hours by road from Jaipur. On this six-inch lid the design is a floral vine: a central blossom in lapis lazuli blue, opening buds in carnelian red, and leaves and tendrils in malachite green, held inside a thin double border of lapis. Every petal and leaf is cut by hand on an emery wheel, the matching recess is chiselled into the marble to the same outline, and the piece is bedded and then ground back level. Nothing here is painted or printed; the colour is stone. ## The marble it is cut from Makrana white marble comes out of the quarries at Makrana in Nagaur district, Rajasthan, which have been worked for centuries and supplied the stone for the Taj Mahal. It is a bright natural white with a faint warm undertone, a compact crystalline grain, and occasional grey hairline veins that never widen past a pencil line. That makes a quiet ground that lets the inlay colours carry the piece. The box is hollowed from a solid block rather than assembled from panels, so the walls, the fluted body and the bevelled base moulding are all one piece of stone; the lid is worked separately and seated on a hinge. The surface is taken to a soft satin polish, with enough sheen to catch light along the mouldings but not so much that it mirrors the room and flattens the inlay. At roughly two kilograms it has the settled weight of solid marble. ## Where a six-inch box sits Six inches long and about four deep, this is a dressing-table piece. It is the size that holds a day of rings, a pair of earrings, a watch or a few small keepsakes without asking for a shelf of its own. It works equally well on a bedside table, a study desk, or a console beside the entrance, and the two-kilogram mass means it stays put when the lid is lifted. Marble takes a wipe with a soft damp cloth and nothing more; keep acidic cleaners, lemon and vinegar away from it, because they etch the polish over time. Because the inlay is stone set into stone rather than a surface decoration, the lid can be handled daily without wearing thin. As a wedding or house-warming gift it has the advantage of still being useful long after the occasion. ## Making it yours This is a made-to-order design, so it is not fixed at six inches or at this motif. We can work it out with you at eight or ten inches for a larger dressing table, change the palette (a green-and-mother-of-pearl reading, or an all-lapis geometric), or drop the inlay entirely for a plain carved lid with deeper fluting. A name or a date cut into the base moulding turns it into a wedding piece. Tell us what you have in mind, and it is cut and inlaid for you by the master artisan families we work with in Jaipur, then followed through to your door. ## Specifications - **Material:** Makrana White Marble - **Finish:** Soft polish (satin) - **Colour:** White - **Weight:** 2 kg - **Ideal for:** dressing table, wedding gift, gifting Stone, size and finish are all changeable — these are the specifications of the piece as shown. ## Media ### Images (1) - https://vptrobfqdvauunfvodxw.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/tmw-media-assets/Statue%20product%20images/makrana-white-marble-pietra-dura-jewellery-box-6in.webp (primary, concept render) All media is public and CORS-open — fetch directly, no signing or proxy needed. ## Part of - [Handicrafts](https://www.tilakmandirwala.com/collections/custom-marble-handicraft-items) ## Related pieces - [Makrana Marble Attar Bottle Set of Three with Brass Stoppers, 5in](https://www.tilakmandirwala.com/products/makrana-white-marble-attar-bottle-set-of-three-brass-stoppers-5in) - [Makrana White Marble Lotus-Petal Urli Bowl, 12in](https://www.tilakmandirwala.com/products/makrana-white-marble-lotus-petal-urli-bowl-12in) - [Makrana White Marble Pooja Thali Set, 12in](https://www.tilakmandirwala.com/products/makrana-white-marble-pooja-thali-set-12in) ## Enquire about this piece - WhatsApp, message pre-written: https://api.whatsapp.com/send?phone=919766532408&text=Hi!%20I'd%20like%20a%20quote%20to%20have%20this%20design%20made%3A%20Makrana%20White%20Marble%20Pietra%20Dura%20Jewellery%20Box%2C%206in.%20Product%20link%3A%20https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tilakmandirwala.com%2Fproducts%2Fmakrana-white-marble-pietra-dura-jewellery-box-6in - Tell us the size, the stone and where it is going. We will send you a quote and a timeline. ## Contact Tilak Mandirwala - Email: info@tilakmandirwala.com - Phone: +91 92141 72150 - WhatsApp: https://wa.me/919766532408 - Enquiry form: https://www.tilakmandirwala.com/contact - Store: Jaipur, Rajasthan, India — https://www.tilakmandirwala.com/best-mandir-shop-jaipur Enquiries are quoted per piece: share the deity or object, an approximate height, and the stone you have in mind.