Vintage Painted Pithara Console Chest Origin - Persia 142 x 10 x 16

142 x 10 x 16 (wxdxh cms)

5 x 173 (wxdxh cms)

This would make a fabulous coffee table

These handmade gathered 100% cotton lampshades are made from block printed cotton sourced from Jaipur

Vintage Painted Pithara Console Chest Origin - Persia 142 x 10 x 16This fabulously decorative Indian chest is a copy of an old Gujarati pithara dowry chest. It is shallower than traditional pithara dowry chests making it practical as a console table or sideboard. Constructed from teak wood with hand forged iron banding, it has been painted with traditional Indian designs. 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