Bengal Hand-Painted Aranmula Wooden Frame – Goddess Durga dailywear earring is hand-carved with real depth

is hand-carved with real depth rather than painted flat

serpentine black lines that wind down across the brow and cheeks like coiled snakes — fitting imagery for Nagakaali

It's less about grand mythology and more about nostalgia — the kind of piece that makes someone from a Tamil household smile the moment they recognise it

the paired male-female form lends itself naturally to gifting for a couple

This piece carves that fierce

Bengal Hand-Painted Aranmula Wooden Frame – Goddess Durga dailywear earring is hand-carved with real depthNo two Bengal artisans paint Durga's face quite the same way each pandal, each family workshop, brings its own palette to her crown and features, so that the same goddess looks subtly different from one Puja to the next. This single Aranmula shaped frame carries one such interpretation, her crown picked out in greens and reds rather than the warmer tones used in other renderings, her wide, expressive eyes and centred third eye set against a maroon