Indian Rider with Ox Cart

The ox has wheels. So does the cart. The driver has opinions, by the look of him.

This rider with ox cart comes from India, early 20th century, cast in brass. Wheeled brass carts of this kind were made in India both as toys for well-off households and, it is thought, as offerings connected with temple and festival life. A humped ox on four small wheels pulls a canopied wagon. The seated driver wears a turban, and a lattice roof with three pointed finials shelters the back. The big wheels are pierced with flower patterns. Twelve inches high and nineteen from end to end.

Traffic has not improved since.