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Kerala Mural Hand-Painted Teardrop Pendant Necklace – Goddess Face Red Rope
Rs. 985.00
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Description
The Kerala Mural tradition's approach to female deity figures is among the most distinctive in Indian sacred art. Goddesses in Kerala Mural painting are depicted with a specific combination of attributes that the tradition has maintained across centuries: a serene, composed expression that signals divine authority rather than human emotion; a conical or structured headdress built up in concentric bands of colour; intricate jewellery at the throat and ears; and a complexion rendered in warm, luminous tones against the canonical Kerala Mural background palette.
This teardrop pendant carries that goddess face in miniature. The composition fills the tapered form of the teardrop from its widest point at the top to its narrowing tip below, with the face and headdress occupying most of the painted surface. The multicolour headdress, the round ear ornaments, the bindi, and the jewellery neckline are each individually rendered — a complete Kerala Mural goddess portrait at a scale that sits comfortably at the collarbone.
The red cotton rope chain is the element that gives this pendant its festive character. Mustard/yellow round beads and small orange tube bead accents create a warm bead section before the pendant on either side, and a red tassel completes the rope end. Red in South Indian festive dressing is the colour of auspiciousness, of Navaratri and Dussera, of goddess worship across Kerala, Karnataka, and Tamil Nadu. The red rope does not soften the pendant — it amplifies it.
Kerala Mural female deity figures of this iconographic type — conical headdress, elaborate jewellery, serene expression — typically represent manifestations of Devi: Lakshmi, Parvati, Saraswati, or an unnamed goddess form specific to the Kerala temple tradition. The ambiguity is itself traditional; the Kerala Mural tradition depicts the divine feminine as a type as much as a specific named figure, allowing the composition to speak to devotional sentiment across deity identifications.
Material : Pre-engineered wood pendant (teardrop), non-toxic hand-applied pigments. Chain: red cotton braided rope with mustard yellow round beads, small orange tube beads, red tassel.
Dimension : Length of the neck piece : 20.75 inches - 7.5 inches (53cm - 19 cm) adjustable length
Size of the pendant : 1.5 inches x 2.5 inches (4 cm x 6.5 cm)
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