Indian Wood Temple Frame

Scalloped cornice, notched borders and a cusped opening cut right through.

This carved teak temple frame is from Karnataka, South India, and dates to the late 19th or early 20th century. It is carved teak wood. Carved frames often surround a sacred image or doorway, marking it as a place of worship and decorating it with floral, animal or divine figures. Tall rectangular panel with a banded top carved in a row of rounded blocks, and a frame lined with tiny beads. A pointed-arch window passes through the center, and the surface is grey-brown with age-worn edges. It is 3.75 inches wide, 1 deep and 6.25 high.

Plenty of carved detail, all aimed at one little window.