Hand-Painted Dashavatharam Wall Frame – Sri Ram Avatar hand painted goddess box Why is Ganesha shown with

Why is Ganesha shown with a book and modaks in this piece

held aloft to punctuate a scene during a village performance of a religious ballad or piece of local folklore

The whole composition is hand-painted in Kerala Mural art's warm palette of golds

an ornate gold crown

Dimensions: 8 x 4 x 4 inches (head)

Hand-Painted Dashavatharam Wall Frame – Sri Ram Avatar hand painted goddess box Why is Ganesha shown withGreen skinned, crowned, and holding a bow, this is Sri Ram the seventh of Vishnu's ten Dashavatharam incarnations and the hero of the Ramayana, one of India's two great epics. Rendered here in the raised gold relief technique of faux Tanjore painting, the frame captures Ram in his divine, iconographic form rather than as the more human protagonist of the epic's narrative scenes. Ram's story is one of dharma under pressure exile, loyalty, and the long