Old Brass Paan Box - Ca 1920 Style - Tea Caddy This elegant blue and white

This elegant blue and white porcelain barrel stool is hand-crafted and hand-painted in Jingdezhen

geometric motifs and brass studs

5 x 30  x 46  (wxdxh cms)

These were often used as family altars or to store religious scrolls

Woods used are elm

Old Brass Paan Box - Ca 1920 Style - Tea Caddy This elegant blue and whiteThis antique brass paan box (sold seperately) dates to around 1920 and reflects an important tradition in Indian social and domestic life. Paan is a preparation of betel leaf filled with spices, lime paste (chunam), and sometimes areca nut or tobacco, chewed for its stimulant and mildly psychoactive effects. Consumed across much of India, paan has long been associated with hospitality, ritual, and daily habit, with the skilled maker known as a