Kalamkari Peacock Serving Tray – Hand-painted Wooden Indian devotional frame It will be close in

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Art form: Madhubani-style folk painting

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Kalamkari Peacock Serving Tray – Hand-painted Wooden Indian devotional frame It will be close inKalam means pen, and kari means work, and together they name one of Andhra Pradesh's oldest storytelling arts, once used to illustrate temple scrolls with a fine bamboo or date palm pen dipped in natural dyes. The peacock has long held a place of honour in that visual language, linked to Kartikeya's celestial mount and to the first rains of monsoon. Our artists hand paint that same peacock, onto solid mango wood, drawing on Kalamkari's characteristic