Ardhanarishwar Cheriyal Mask – Hand-painted Folk Art Mithila art jewelry its bold colour and craftsmanship

its bold colour and craftsmanship make it a popular choice for housewarmings and other milestone gifts

It draws on the bold

festive occasions

applied through a deliberately aged hand-painting technique rather than a single flat coat

designed to be mounted rather than stood

Ardhanarishwar Cheriyal Mask – Hand-painted Folk Art Mithila art jewelry its bold colour and craftsmanshipAmong the twenty odd traditional masks still made by Nakashi mask makers in Cheriyal village, near Warangal in Telangana, Ardhanarishwar is one of the more demanding to get right a single face split down the centre, one half rendered as Shiva, the other as Parvati, meeting at a shared jawline and crown. It's an iconography that goes back much further than the 400 year old Cheriyal craft itself, representing the union of masculine and feminine cosmic