Indian Stick Box Storage Chest From Jaisalmer - 19thC Chapati Box allowing it to fit into

allowing it to fit into a wide variety of interior styles

22 x 22 x 35(w x d x h cms)

Features: Two-part stacking chest

"The Sign Painter" Woodblock Print from "The Annual Events of the Edo Theatre" by Adachi Ginko Ca 1897

it is finished internally with hanji (later replaced)

Indian Stick Box Storage Chest From Jaisalmer - 19thC Chapati Box allowing it to fit intoKnown 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. 107 x 58 x 60 (wxdxh cms) UK Delivery