Stick Door Panel From Jaisalmer - 19th Century Bangles DRY CLEAN ONLY

DRY CLEAN ONLY

Cast in brass and retaining its original internal clapper

arranged in horizontal registers that give the surface a rhythmic

140 x 6 x 213 (wxdxh cms)

Finely carved from Roheda wood

Stick Door Panel From Jaisalmer - 19th Century Bangles DRY CLEAN ONLYThis Indian stick door dates to the 19th century and would have come from the home of the desert dwelling tribes of Western Rajasthan in their buildings who made their homes of mud and clay. Wood is very scarce in the Thar desert & doors, window shutters and furniture were made of sticks harvested from the slow growing and wirey kair tree (capparis decidua). The sticks are then riveted together with iron fittings. Hung on a wall they make stunning and