Tibetan Lectern With Dragon Painting - 19thC Style - Ginger Jar Carved stone lamp niche -

Carved stone lamp niche - these were normally used beside doorways with oil lamps or candles

Two sliding doors and six drawers

surface losses and patina consistent with its architectural use and age

making it an impressive decorative statement in both traditional and contemporary interiors

some of which are remaining

Tibetan Lectern With Dragon Painting - 19thC Style - Ginger Jar Carved stone lamp niche -Constructed from cedar or pine, these altars are decorated in the traditional Tibetan mineral colours. They were often used as family altars as storage for important religious scrolls, silk ceremonial clothes, family jewellery and yak butter used in lamps. Togam or Chosun cabinets were used to store ritual cakes or torma, they are often decorated with tantric designs. Original antique Tibetan cabinets are now quite rare and there are many reproduction