This round turban box with a dome-shaped lid made of cowdung mixed clay and papier mache is densely pigment painted depicting scenes from Hindu mythology as well as courtly life in a style remotely invoking the Kota idiom of Rajasthan. The painted scenes on the lid include vastra-harana or Krishna taking away the clothes of the bathing gopis, Krishna flanked by two gopis, Shiva and Parvati, and Ganesha being venerated by a female devotee.
The images on the box represent courtly life including royal personages riding an elephant or a horse, man combating a tiger, an aristocrat being carried in a palanquin and a female seated in a horse-drawn chariot.
The box was used for keeping laboriously wound turbans which were often embellished with ornaments studded with precious stones.
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