Vintage Indian Tikka Box Temple Wheeled Version Peacock Handle & Floral Motif

  

An unusually large vintage Indian peacock motif, teak Tikka or Tilaka box. Such is the size, it would have been used by devotees in temple to apply. A bindi marks to their foreheads. Would make a highly decorative spice box in a contemporary kitchen.

Traditionally, tikka or tilaka boxes. Were used to store tikka powder, or kumkum, used typically to make social and religious markings on the forehead of devotees known as a tikka mark or bindi. A red dot of vermillion paste applied to the forehead at the exact spot considered the centre of latent wisdom and concentration, as well as the location of the third, or spiritual, eye is said to reside. Such is the size and weight of this beautiful wheeled example, it would have originally been used in temple. Today, in its latest incarnation, it would make statement spice box in a contemporary kitchen. It comprises of five compartments, four petal-shaped and one circular. Elements echoed by the hand-carved swivel lid. Private English, single owner collection.

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INDIAN TIKKA POWDER IN PORCELAIN BOWLS FOR DISPLAY PURPOSES ONLY, AND NOT INCLUDED. UK mainland dispatch by ParcelForce 48 signed for.

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