Painted Altar Cabinet From Tibet - 19thC Wine Tables This beautifully preserved Teak Jewellery

This beautifully preserved Teak Jewellery Box  is a real stunner

68 x 75 cm (w x h cms)

Kantha is a centuries-old tradition of stitching patchwork cloth from rags by thrifty rural women

Approximately 40 - 45 cms long

this piece translates effortlessly into a contemporary interior

Painted Altar Cabinet From Tibet - 19thC Wine Tables This beautifully preserved Teak JewelleryThis Altar cabinet has beautiful floral decoration on a gold background. The painting is original. These cabinets are constructed from cedar or pine and decorated in the traditional Tibetan colours. They were often used as family altars & were used to store religious scrolls, silk ceremonial clothes, family jewellery and yak butter used in lamps. Original antique Tibetan cabinets are now very rare and there are many reproduction pieces made in China