Hand-Painted Dashavatharam Wall Frame – Sri Ram Avatar hand painted goddess box on top of a striking

on top of a striking terracotta-red face with a bold black moustache and calm

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where painted hide figures were animated behind a backlit screen in performances retelling the epics

held aloft to punctuate a scene during a village performance of a religious ballad or piece of local folklore

The Yellow and Pink pair from EthniiChic is a hand-painted tribute to this centuries-old Rajasthani tradition

Hand-Painted Dashavatharam Wall Frame – Sri Ram Avatar hand painted goddess box on top of a strikingGreen skinned, crowned, and holding a bow, this is Sri Ram the seventh of Vishnu's ten Dashavatharam incarnations and the hero of the Ramayana, one of India's two great epics. Rendered here in the raised gold relief technique of faux Tanjore painting, the frame captures Ram in his divine, iconographic form rather than as the more human protagonist of the epic's narrative scenes. Ram's story is one of dharma under pressure exile, loyalty, and the long