Madhubani Peacock Hand Mirror - Hand-Painted Wooden Mirror warli clock india slight variations in colour and

slight variations in colour and stroke detail occur between pairs - a sign of genuine handcraft

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but since each one is hand-painted

one of the most cherished episodes in Vaishnav devotional lore

historically produced by artisan communities in Kutch using natural pigments and painstaking hand-drawn dot and line work

Madhubani Peacock Hand Mirror - Hand-Painted Wooden Mirror warli clock india slight variations in colour andIn the villages of Mithila, in Bihar, women have painted the walls and floors of their homes for centuries not as art for its own sake, but as prayer, celebration, and inheritance passed from mother to daughter. Every wedding, every harvest, every birth found its way onto a wall in bold outlines and jewel toned fills. The peacock was, and remains, the most cherished figure in this vocabulary: a symbol of the monsoon's arrival, of courtship and marital