Ganesha Name Board Tanjore Style - Hand-painted Wooden Door Sign lotus magnet painters would fill the walls

painters would fill the walls with auspicious imagery to bless a new marriage — and the elephant

both rendered in the same warm orange-red palette with gold circular medallions and dotted black eye masks — a pairing built around scale contrast rather than colour contrast

shapes the facing pair of elephants engraved onto this standing napkin holder

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

Ganesha Name Board Tanjore Style - Hand-painted Wooden Door Sign lotus magnet painters would fill the wallsTanjore art was born to catch the light of an oil lamp deep reds and greens set off with gold tone detailing, meant to glow softly in a temple room or doorway at dusk. EthniiChic's Ganesha Name Board brings that same warm, festive palette to a separately hand painted figure, fixed onto a stained wood door sign. Ganesha is hand painted as a standalone piece, layering colour and gold tone highlighting in the manner associated with Tanjore style