Bengal Hand-Painted Aranmula Wooden Frame – Goddess Durga dailywear earring made to sit on a

made to sit on a study table

making it a recurring colour choice in temple paintings

now practiced by only a few families

the paired male-female form lends itself naturally to gifting for a couple

a circular vision of Krishna dancing with the gopis that Odisha's temple-town artists have painted onto cloth and palm-leaf scrolls long before it found its way onto trays

Bengal Hand-Painted Aranmula Wooden Frame – Goddess Durga dailywear earring made to sit on aNo 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