Title
Teak door from a Chettiar house
Year/Period
Last quarter of the 19th century CE
Region
Chettinad, Tamil Nadu, South India
Technique
Dimension
Object size: 212 x 116 cm
Accession No.
1994-00314
Collection of
This is a typical Chettiar house in the Chettinad area. There would have been an inner courtyard with pillars such as these and along the pillared walkway, rooms for individual family members inherited by a son in a patrilineal family. Their rooms had doors such as the example shown here.
