Pyramid chest, South India, Kerala, 19th century Box with a rectangular base containing a compartment with a lock and opening with a pyramidal lid. Wooden box painted in polychrome with geometrical and vegetal motifs and human figures with joined hands in prayer and flanked by elephants. The wood is decorated with metal fittings with vegetal or geometrical cut-outs, some openwork, some chiselled, riveted with round-headed nails. Small handle at the top of the lid and important lock closing it. 27 x 36 x 28 cm Small accidents and missing parts, mainly at the base, missing key, lock of the compartment not functional. A Kerala Pyramid Box, South India, 19th century