Antique Wooden Kerala Box
Decription
This is very rarely finding Antique Wooden Kerala Box With Antique Brass decoration. Made of single piece of teak wood ancient Carpenters in Kerala. Must be 100-150 years old. It has wonderful traditional Kerala design on top. The piece in good condition without any damage.
This kind of boxes were commonly used till early 19th century. This is the one of the great example of artistic talent of the ancient Kerala craftsmen.This boxes seems in different model in different locations of Kerala . In this boxes they used to carry their daily usage stuffs like bunch of keys, coins, chewing pans, perfumes, some special spices etc. This usually find in woods like teak, Rose wood and Jack wood.
The box made out of single piece of wood have great demands in antique lovers across the world. In ancient times they wanted this to be look better than others and they spent any money to make the Tortoise box attractive. That is the reason why you can see nice brass decoration in these boxes.
Care Instruction: Clean it with a soft damp cloth
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Base Price: Rs. 26202.75
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