Brass Studded Rosewood Bombay Chest - 19th Century Material - Zelkova Wood Nagaur is one of the

Nagaur is one of the four Rajput schools in the area known as Marwar and is well-reputed for its beautiful style of painting

Materials: Layered cotton cloth with hand-stitched Kantha embroidery

Constructed from teak wood with carved central panel and bound with iron

23 x 23 x 29 (wxdxh cms)

These beautifully carved doors would have originally been used as the front door of a merchant's home

Brass Studded Rosewood Bombay Chest - 19th Century Material - Zelkova Wood Nagaur is one of theThis studded antique Indian chest is made from luscious rosewood. This style of Zanzibar chest is known as a Bombay chest, or a 'category 3 shisham chest' in S Unwin's seminal book. These chests were made South of Bombay. This one is larger than most chests of this style and has bum feet. You can see parallels with the Indo Portuguese and Portuguese Brazilian furniture of earlier periods. A clear influence in style from the British occupation in India