Bengal Hand-Painted Aranmula Wooden Frame – Goddess Durga traditional indian gift box though it works equally well

though it works equally well hung on a wall as a decorative piece

Do the two masks in the pair look different from each other

this set commands attention on an entryway console

or for anyone drawn to Krishna's mythology rendered in an unexpected

They are traditional visual markers associated with Nagakaali's iconography

Bengal Hand-Painted Aranmula Wooden Frame – Goddess Durga traditional indian gift box though it works equally wellNo two Bengal artisans paint Durga's face quite the same way each pandal, each family workshop, brings its own palette to her crown and features, so that the same goddess looks subtly different from one Puja to the next. This single Aranmula shaped frame carries one such interpretation, her crown picked out in greens and reds rather than the warmer tones used in other renderings, her wide, expressive eyes and centred third eye set against a maroon