Painted Indian 2 Door Pithara Console Chest Chest Features: Handcrafted construction

Features: Handcrafted construction

Chests & furniture were made to order

this jar now makes a striking decorative object

Both visually striking and culturally evocative

Elegant yet versatile

Painted Indian 2 Door Pithara Console Chest Chest Features: Handcrafted constructionThis fabulously decorative chest has been reduced in depth and has had two doors added to create an exotic and unusual sideboard. Teak with hand forged iron banding, it has been repainted with traditional Indian designs. In it's previous life this 19thC chest was used to store dowry and was known as a pithara. This style of pithara is from a Kathi home in Saurashtra and was known in the local dialect as a pataro. The Kathi were a ruling caste in