Indian Stick Box Chest From Jaisalmer - Ca 1920 Chairs This rare antique Japanese cabinet

This rare antique Japanese cabinet with drawers is very unusual and known as a Shomon Dansu

Appreciating

while the disciplined roundels and borders point to patterns derived from kati rimo silk brocades—textile sources that early Tibetan workshops translated into paint

5 x 102 cms (wxdxh)

Traditional joinery techniques are evident throughout

Indian Stick Box Chest From Jaisalmer - Ca 1920 Chairs This rare antique Japanese cabinetKnown 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. 87 x 60. 5 x 81 (wxdxh cms) UK