Small Nandi – Hand-painted Wooden Sculpture Brown hand painted elephant decor hybrid form as a raised

hybrid form as a raised sculptural head

and it shows up often in Madhubani painting

painted in the region's classical natural-pigment palette

you may notice small variations in brushstroke and paint texture compared to the listing photos

Its bright

Small Nandi – Hand-painted Wooden Sculpture Brown hand painted elephant decor hybrid form as a raisedThere is a particular shade of orange brown that only shows up in old temple courtyards at dusk, when the laterite stone has been warmed by an entire day of sun. This Small Nandi is painted in exactly that tone. His body is a deep, earthen rust, his saddle cloth picked out in bottle green and maroon, his hooves finished in black with a fine gold line at the ankle. He sits low and rounded, front legs folded beneath him, in the eternal posture of