Madhubani Fish Tissue Holder - Engraved Hand Painted Wood college wear It works well as a

It works well as a centrepiece on a dining table or living room console

everyday-wearable alternative of the same motif

then painted freehand by our artists using the same fine-lined technique practised in the Mithila region for generations — no stencils

and good fortune

one of India's oldest living folk art traditions

Madhubani Fish Tissue Holder - Engraved Hand Painted Wood college wear It works well as aLong before it became a motif on paper, the fish swam through the ponds around Madhubani town in Bihar, and into the vocabulary of Mithila's women painters as a symbol of fertility, abundance, and good fortune. It is one of the most gifted motifs at Mithila weddings, tucked into wall paintings of the marriage room as a blessing for the couple's new home. Here, that same fish is engraved into a standing wooden napkin holder, its scaled body traced in