Stick Door Panel From Jaisalmer - 19th Century Bangles The horse design is skillfully

The horse design is skillfully hand painted onto bone inlay

surface wear consistent with age

The back is the most important element of these chairs and this depicts a qilin

Cast in brass and retaining its original internal clapper

This Japanese choba dansu (or cho dansu) merchant chest dates from the Meji Period (1868 - 1912)

Stick Door Panel From Jaisalmer - 19th Century Bangles The horse design is skillfullyThis 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