Indian Candle Niche with Mihrab

A tall pale panel with a pointed niche and a small round foot.

This marble candle niche with mihrab form is from Rajasthan, India, and is contemporary. Rajasthan is a well-known source of marble, and stone carvers there have worked it for centuries into architecture, inlay and decorative objects. A slender rectangular piece in off-white, with a long recessed channel under a pointed arch and a stepped border. A small round cup shape sits at the bottom, and the interior is stained and tinted brown. It is 6 inches wide, 4 deep and 16 high.

A long, narrow doorway that goes all the way down.