Hand-Painted Dashavatharam Wall Frame – Narasimha Avatar long drop earrings India hand-painted cut-out sits proud of

hand-painted cut-out sits proud of the flat navy background

It's just as functional as any other piece here — a home for jewellery

It's sold as a decorative folk art piece rather than a consecrated object

which can dull the painted surface over time

and into the vocabulary of Mithila's women painters as a symbol of fertility

Hand-Painted Dashavatharam Wall Frame – Narasimha Avatar long drop earrings India hand-painted cut-out sits proud ofHalf man, half lion, and summoned into being at the exact threshold of a doorway neither indoors nor outdoors to outwit a boon that made a demon king nearly invincible. Narasimha, the fourth of Vishnu's ten Dashavatharam avatars, is one of the most dramatic incarnations in Hindu mythology, and this faux Tanjore frame renders him mid legend, mane and claws rendered in raised gold relief. The story of Narasimha is famous for its ingenuity: the demon