Indian Stick Box Storage Chest From Jaisalmer - 19thC Style - Wine Jars original annotations

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Korean coin chest

Dokra metal casting is one of the oldest traditional techniques of metal casting in India that uses the lost wax casting method

Original antique Tibetan cabinets are now quite rare and there are many reproduction pieces made in China coming into the market - This one is from Tibet

It is made in the Ming Style and comes from Shanxi province in Northern China

Indian Stick Box Storage Chest From Jaisalmer - 19thC Style - Wine Jars original annotationsKnown 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. 97 x 55 x 57 (wxdxh cms) UK Delivery