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Natural pigment · 38 × 56 cm · unframed
Mithila work from the Terai — dense line, flat colour, no empty ground — painted in natural pigment on lokta paper and sold unframed and unrolled.
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Request a quote for this| Material | Lokta paper, natural pigment |
|---|---|
| Technique | Hand-painted, freehand line |
| Dimensions | 38 × 56 cm sheet |
| Weight | 0.2 kg |
| Unit | piece |
| Made in | Janakpur, Madhesh Province |
| Producer | Mithila painting collective |
| Item code | AEX-HCR-505 |
| HS code | 9701.10 Indicative. Final classification is decided by the customs authority at the port of entry — give this to your broker as a starting point, not as a ruling. |
Mithila painting comes out of the Janakpur region and was a wall-and-floor art long before it was ever put on paper. The conventions are strict: the outline is drawn first in a single continuous line, the ground is filled completely, and the figures are frontal.
Pigment is mineral and vegetable — lampblack, ochre, indigo, turmeric — bound with gum. It is stable but not lightfast in the way acrylic is, so hang it out of direct sun.
Ships flat between boards rather than rolled. Rolled paper arrives with a memory in it that never quite comes out.
Hand-painted, freehand line — Janakpur, Madhesh Province.
Sourced from Mithila painting collective.
Handicrafts & Metalwork — Patan & Bhaktapur. See the rest of this category.
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Frame behind glass, out of direct sunlight. Do not clean the surface.
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