Handmade Wooden Elephant Toy, Car With Wheels, South Asia, Colonial India By The Late 19th Century, Figural Animal Box, Folk Oriental Art

Handmade Wooden Elephant Toy, Car With Wheels, South Asia, Colonial India By The Late 19th Century, Figural Animal Box, Folk Oriental Art

$300.00
$300.00
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Handmade Wooden Elephant Toy, Car With Wheels, South Asia, Colonial India By The Late 19th Century, Figural Animal Box, Folk Oriental Art
  • Handmade Wooden Elephant Toy, Car With Wheels, South Asia, Colonial India By The Late 19th Century, Figural Animal Box, Folk Oriental Art
  • Handmade Wooden Elephant Toy, Car With Wheels, South Asia, Colonial India By The Late 19th Century, Figural Animal Box, Folk Oriental Art
  • Handmade Wooden Elephant Toy, Car With Wheels, South Asia, Colonial India By The Late 19th Century, Figural Animal Box, Folk Oriental Art
  • Handmade Wooden Elephant Toy, Car With Wheels, South Asia, Colonial India By The Late 19th Century, Figural Animal Box, Folk Oriental Art
  • Handmade Wooden Elephant Toy, Car With Wheels, South Asia, Colonial India By The Late 19th Century, Figural Animal Box, Folk Oriental Art
  • Handmade Wooden Elephant Toy, Car With Wheels, South Asia, Colonial India By The Late 19th Century, Figural Animal Box, Folk Oriental Art
  • Handmade Wooden Elephant Toy, Car With Wheels, South Asia, Colonial India By The Late 19th Century, Figural Animal Box, Folk Oriental Art
  • Handmade Wooden Elephant Toy, Car With Wheels, South Asia, Colonial India By The Late 19th Century, Figural Animal Box, Folk Oriental Art
  • Handmade Wooden Elephant Toy, Car With Wheels, South Asia, Colonial India By The Late 19th Century, Figural Animal Box, Folk Oriental Art
  • Handmade Wooden Elephant Toy, Car With Wheels, South Asia, Colonial India By The Late 19th Century, Figural Animal Box, Folk Oriental Art
  • Handmade Wooden Elephant Toy, Car With Wheels, South Asia, Colonial India By The Late 19th Century, Figural Animal Box, Folk Oriental Art
  • Handmade Wooden Elephant Toy, Car With Wheels, South Asia, Colonial India By The Late 19th Century, Figural Animal Box, Folk Oriental Art
  • Handmade Wooden Elephant Toy, Car With Wheels, South Asia, Colonial India By The Late 19th Century, Figural Animal Box, Folk Oriental Art
  • Handmade Wooden Elephant Toy, Car With Wheels, South Asia, Colonial India By The Late 19th Century, Figural Animal Box, Folk Oriental Art
Handmade Wooden Elephant Toy, Car With Wheels, South Asia, Colonial India By The Late 19th Century, Figural Animal Box, Folk Oriental Art

Handmade Wooden Elephant Toy, Car With Wheels, South Asia, Colonial India By The Late 19th Century, Figural Animal Box, Folk Oriental Art

$300.00
$300.00
Dimensions, 16 L x 4 W x 4.75 H inches, equivalent to 40.6 cm x 10.2 cm x 12.1 cm. All measurements are approximate. Provenance: private Hawaii, USA collection; ex-Wailuku Gallery, Hawaii, USA. Currently NYC, USA. South Asia, Colonial India, circa Late 19th century to the very early 20th century. This is an interesting wooden child's temple toy using a baluster table leg and additional pieces of wood and brass to create a clever wheeled elephant and storage container. The wooden wheels rotate freely on simple axle rods and repousse brass caps decorate the iron nails. The table leg is cut lengthwise down the center then the interior is hollowed out to create a very shallow compartment, the narrow foot end is nailed together, and the top half swivels open for a limited storage space for small trinkets. At the tip is an elephant's head which helps transform this simple cannon like leg into a more attractive toy for a child. Such toys were popular in temples to occupy children while their parents attended worship.

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