Round box depicting the stories from the Buddha’s life

Round box decorated with life scenes of Lord Buddha, floral designs is inscribed. The box is separable in three parts. The stories depicting mainly the birth of the Buddha, Prince Siddhartha riding his horse Kanthaka out of the palace, Mara with his three daughters attempting to distract Siddhartha from his reparation while the latter invites the Earth to witness his attainment of bodhijnana, Buddha seated on a lotus in dharmachakra mudra delivering his sermon in the deer park at Sarnath and the mahaparinirvana. The painting is done in black colour on red lacquered surface.