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TABLE
4:
Code:
ST620
Central Tibet
19th-20th Century
70x29 h.45 cm
click image for front detail
Much care has gone into choosing the palette and decorating this table, painted on three sides. The front two panels and the sides have a composition consisting of flowers, leaves, bilva fruit and a Chinese auspicious symbol inside a central cartouche. The character and the bilva fruit are executed in Dutch gold, a brass powder known as rag-dul in Tibetan, with raised gesso outlines for the former, and dots for the second. The borders are also finely decorated with a red background, blue flowers and more raised gesso, or kyung-bur work. The long, lower front panels, which are so frequently missing from these old tables, are decorated with a similar palette, but with a very stylized simbol in the centre. A drawer runs the length of the table.
