Indian Die-Form Square Box

White cube tiled in brick-like strips and dotted with black spots like a die.

This die-form square box in camel bone and sheesham wood is from Rajasthan, India, and is contemporary. Sheesham, also called Indian rosewood, is a dense hardwood widely used for furniture and decorative objects in northern India. Square block whose faces are pieced together from small pale rectangles in a staggered brick pattern. Round black dots are set across each side in a loose arrangement. Fine dark cracks run across a few strips, and shading drifts to gray. It is 5 inches wide, 5 deep and 5 high.

A very serious die that has never been rolled.