Chip Carved Dowry Hut Box From Jaisalmer - 19th Century Period - 17th Century Marble Buddha Head From Hebei

Marble Buddha Head From Hebei Province - Not an antique but beautifully carved

solid and decorative

Depicting Prince Genji & Lady Asagao watching three girls marking a snow rabbit below the winter moon

sometimes accompanied by 500 or more lesser Lohans

Roheda (Tecomella undulata) is a tree that grows in the Thar desert

Chip Carved Dowry Hut Box From Jaisalmer - 19th Century Period - 17th Century Marble Buddha Head From HebeiThis antique Indian dowry box from the desert region of Jaisalmer, Western Rajasthan, is an excellent mid 19th century example of the hut box form. With its tall gabled lid, the design reflects the vernacular architecture of the Thar desert, where huts and houses carried the same pitched roof structure. Traditionally, such boxes were crafted to store a bride's dowry, containing her wedding clothes, jewellery, money, and household items to take to her