Carved Teak Temple Capital, 17th-Century India outdoor Larger table: 22" diameter x

Larger table: 22" diameter x 21"H

so the pattern reads from a distance

4" thickness

volutes curling into themselves and rimmed in fine beading

and every joint carries the faint patina of a piece that has been lived with and loved

Carved Teak Temple Capital, 17th-Century India outdoor Larger table: 22" diameter xCarved from a single block of teak and worn soft by four centuries of weather and hands. An architectural fragment with the presence of a small shrine. This is a column capital from a temple or haveli in India, roughly four hundred years old, the carved crown that once sat atop a pillar and helped carry the beam above. Look closely and parrots emerge from the corners, wings folded, beaks curved, each one trailing a long festoon of carved beads like a