There are two more of these palanquin shaft terminals in the Victoria and Albert Museum. They, like the present example, have unfortunately lost any record of their Indian provenance, having entered the collection in 1885 from the Indian Museum but without any records going further back.
It is however highly probable that all three were originally made for Tipoo Sultan in Mysore. Many of his furnishings and weapons had tiger-head motifs, and the form of the stripes here is extremely close to those on items that are known to have been at Seringapatam.