Item of the Month: Mysore Casket
April's Item of the Month is a rare, large and finely carved sandalwood table casket, made in Mysore, South India, circa 1860. An almost identical, albeit smaller casket, described as a 'jewel box' is in the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, (accession number 9672:1 to 9/(IS)), and was noted as acquired by the India Museum [...]