April 23, 2024
Antique Hindu Temple Toy Cart on Wheels w/Peacock Asian India 19th-20th C
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This is a vintage brass shrine/temple toy from India. Wheeled seven-sided cart with figurehead, a large spread-wing bird [Makura, the sacred peacock of Hindu mythology who sprung from the feathers of Garuda]. Below figurehead is a loop to attach cart to a draft animal. A near identical cart online is dated to 1850-1899. I acquired this cart and another [Nandi, sacred bull of Shiva figurehead] from an antique dealer in the late 90s. Size is width on side 5.75", height 3.75" cart diameter 4.25", front width 4.25"One online source suggests children would play with toys like this in the temple while their parents attended Puja [prayer] and the children would act out in play the things they saw at Hindu celebrations like Durga day when horses pull carriages around the temple grounds and village. Festival dieties ride in these carts or carriages. Another source suggests these are called temple toys simply because they have been found near ancient temples. ??
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