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Madhubani Hand-Painted Pendant Necklace – Twin Fish Orange Teal
Rs. 985.00
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Description
Two fish, swimming together in opposite registers, filling a single framed space — this is the twin fish or Matsya Yugal composition in Madhubani painting, one of the tradition's most recognisable and auspicious motifs. In the Mithila folk painting tradition, paired fish represent the cosmic balance of opposites: motion and stillness, the incoming and outgoing tide, the male and female principles of the natural world. They appear in wedding paintings as symbols of marital harmony, in household ritual paintings as blessings for abundance, and in contemporary interpretations as a statement of folk art fluency.
This shield or crest-shaped pendant carries the twin fish in orange and yellow on a teal-blue background — the fish fills most of the available painted surface, their bold Madhubani outlines and detailed internal line work filling the painted field with movement. A cobalt blue border frames the composition, and the pendant's silhouette follows a shield or crest shape with a pointed lower edge and a flat or slightly curved top edge — a form with visible connections to the shaped pendants of traditional Indian craft jewellery.
The chain is a black rope carrying orange square tube bead sections, small dark navy round beads, and pearl accent beads. The orange tube beads carry the fish painting's warm orange tone into the chain material, and the dark navy beads echo the pendant's teal-blue ground. The chain treats the pendant's palette as a source for its own material choices — the result is a necklace where chain and pendant read as a designed whole.
The Madhubani or Mithila painting tradition, practised for over two thousand years in the Mithila region of Bihar and Nepal, has been recognised with a Geographical Indication tag by the Government of India. The twin fish motif is among the tradition's oldest continuously painted subjects — a motif whose meaning has been carried through generations of women artists painting on floors, walls, and now on surfaces that travel with the wearer.
Material : Pre-engineered wood pendant (shield/crest shape), non-toxic Madhubani pigments. Chain: black rope with orange square tube beads, small dark navy round beads, and pearl accent beads.
Dimension : Length of the neck piece : 20.5 inches - 10.5 inches (51.5 cm - 26.5cm) adjustable length
Size of the pendant : 8 cm x 7.5 cm (3.2 inches x 3 inches)
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