Antique Painted Wooden Indian Hindu Bull (Nandi) rabbit box The lip is a bit

The lip is a bit irregular due to the roughness of the clay

which may be to be original to its making

Fabulous at the center of the dining table

the only flaw is a few white paint drips on the front of the owl

But you could serve anything on these and it would feel like a special occasion

Antique Painted Wooden Indian Hindu Bull (Nandi) rabbit box The lip is a bitThis is an antique carved and painted wooden Nandi the sacred bull calf, gatekeeper, and vehicle of the Hindu god Shiva and I am quite taken with him! I believe he dates to the late 19th or early 20th century and was made in India. Over these years and distances he has seen some things, losing the tips of his ears and one of his horns as well as some of his paint in the process, but he has a fantastic presence and patina, and I love him all the more