A carved sandalwood walking stick
Mysore, second half of the 19th Centurythe pommel in the form of a lion with a protruding tongue, with tapering shaft, decorated in relief with bands of floral, foliate, and zig-zag motifs and rectangular panels containing birds on a foliate ground to the top of the shaft, the finial with hatched, foliate and scale designs, the end with repeating curved notches
89.4 cm. longFootnotesA similar sandalwood walking stick was presented to King Edward VII, when Prince of Wales, during his tour of India in 1875-76, by Vijayarama III Gajapati Raju Pusapati, Maharaja of Vizianagaram. It remains in the Royal Collection (RCIN 11429).
Such pieces were produced by gudigars, a group of hereditary temple carvers thought to have migrated to South India from Goa in the 16th Century. The earliest known example of gudigar-carved sandalwood object outside of a temple context is a travelling bed thought to have been made for Tipu Sultan in the late 18th Century, currently at Powis Castle, Wales (Amin Jaffer, Furniture from British India and Ceylon, London: V&A Publications, 2001, p.149, fig. 67).
A carved sandalwood walking stick
Mysore, second half of the 19th Centurythe pommel in the form of a lion with a protruding tongue, with tapering shaft, decorated in relief with bands of floral, foliate, and zig-zag motifs and rectangular panels containing birds on a foliate ground to the top of the shaft, the finial with hatched, foliate and scale designs, the end with repeating curved notches
89.4 cm. longFootnotesA similar sandalwood walking stick was presented to King Edward VII, when Prince of Wales, during his tour of India in 1875-76, by Vijayarama III Gajapati Raju Pusapati, Maharaja of Vizianagaram. It remains in the Royal Collection (RCIN 11429).
Such pieces were produced by gudigars, a group of hereditary temple carvers thought to have migrated to South India from Goa in the 16th Century. The earliest known example of gudigar-carved sandalwood object outside of a temple context is a travelling bed thought to have been made for Tipu Sultan in the late 18th Century, currently at Powis Castle, Wales (Amin Jaffer, Furniture from British India and Ceylon, London: V&A Publications, 2001, p.149, fig. 67).
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