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The artisan making these coasters can trace his lineage directly to those workshops.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMade in Agra by artisans who carry the pietra dura tradition in an unbroken line from the craftsmen who inlaid the Taj Mahal's interior chambers, these handcrafted white marble coasters are set with semi-precious stones: coral, malachite, mother-of-pearl, each piece cut and fitted by hand into the Makrana marble base. The technique has not changed because it does not need to.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the table, these coasters protect surfaces in the way any coaster does. But their weight, their specific coldness to the touch, the way light catches each inlaid stone differently, these are qualities that belong to an object of a different order than the functional. Place a glass down. Lift it. 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This replica was made by Dhokra artisans using the identical lost-wax technique: a wax figure built by hand, encased in clay, molten brass poured in, the clay broken away to reveal what the heat made. The same method. The same figure. Four and a half millennia apart.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Dancing Girl, unearthed at Mohenjo-Daro in the Indus Valley and dated to approximately 2500 BCE, was cast using a technique that Dhokra artisans in Jharkhand, West Bengal, Odisha, and Chhattisgarh still practice today. That continuity is not metaphor; it is material fact. This replica was made by those same artisans using the same lost-wax process: each figure begins as a hand-modeled wax form, gets encased in clay, and is fired until the wax runs out and molten brass takes its place. The clay shell is broken open once. 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