Tibetan wooden trunk leather covered

A tibetan chest
Native tibetan hand painted
Yak skin covered with wood
Made like 60years old
Avilable.
A tibetan wooden trunk from Kham province, eastern Tibet. The chest features an embossed gold dharma wheel in the center with a lively snow lion on either side. Embossed gold foliage patterns on a red background run across the front portion of this chest. The sides of the chest are also decorated with a central painting of a mongoose spitting out gems on a reddish brown background.

Place of origin
Tibet
Material
yak skin covered with tibetan pine with old metal work decorated
Model number
LF-Trunk 69
Size
L 90cm W50cm H50cm
Packing
Usually we use two layers to pack them, the inner layer is by the plastic foam, second layer(outside of the first layer) is the four-layers paper carton,big items finially packed with the strong plastic strip.usually 80-90 pieces of middle size chest can be fit into a 20- foot container .
Weight

Tibetan monastic boxes or chests were originally used in the store rooms of monasteries to hold the brocades, hangings, ornaments, Cham costumes, masks and other precious objects that were not used every day. These chests were often offered to the monastery by a sponsor, so each donor would try to use the best materials and the best artists of the time to make the box a worthy offering. They were also commissioned by the monastic authorities themselves, and would have been painted by the thankha painters of that monastery. Often large amounts of gold and the best mineral colours were used in the execution, hence some of the best examples of Tibetan furniture decoration are found on these chests. Dragons, lotus flowers and flaming jewels are amongst the most popular motifs on the boxes.
Tibetan people belives that the yak skin could drive the bad luck away and keep the good luck stay.Furniture from Tibet has always been quite rare. Except for the wealthy, Tibetans used very little furniture in their homes, and the population of Tibet has always been so small that not much was ever made. Most of it was probably always found in the monasteries, and of course most of these monasteries were destroyed by the Chinese during the "Cultural Revolution" along with huge amounts of furniture. Made primarily from pine and other Himalayan soft woods, it is noted more for its sometimes lavishly painted surface and/or carved decoration than for its joinery.