Indian Stick Box Chest From Jaisalmer - Ca 1920 Chairs Carved wood tika box from

Carved wood tika box from Rajasthan - with swing lid

Appreciating

This rare antique Japanese cabinet with drawers is very unusual and known as a Shomon Dansu

5 x 102 cms (wxdxh)

it is very heavy

Indian Stick Box Chest From Jaisalmer - Ca 1920 Chairs Carved wood tika box fromKnown as Stick boxes, these boxes were passed down through the family with each generation in the Thar desert area of West Rajasthan and were used as dowry chests. Wood is very scarce in the desert and the resourceful tribes people of this area made these boxes from sticks harvested from the Kair tree Capparis decidua. The sticks are then riveted together with hand wrought iron fittings to make a very sturdy box. 87 x 60. 5 x 81 (wxdxh cms) UK