Ivory Wall Art

Ivory — 2 museum-grade prints in this palette. The char-bagh ('four gardens') is the fourfold paradise-garden plan inherited from Persian and Mughal design — quartered by water channels around a central tank or pavilion, evoking the four rivers of paradise. Rajput courts adopted and painted it, and the Amber-Jaipur school was especially associated with refined, balanced renderings of formal gardens. The lifting of Govardhan is one of the central episodes of Krishna-lila: to humble Indra and shelter the cowherds of Braj from a punishing storm, the young Krishna raised Govardhan hill on his little finger and held it as an umbrella for seven days — the origin of the Govardhan-puja and Annakut festival. This treatment follows the Mewar school of Udaipur and Nathdwara, known within the Rajput miniature umbrella for bold flat red-and-yellow grounds and frontal directness; Nathdwara is the great Vaishnava centre where the Shrinathji image is itself a Govardhan-lifting form of Krishna.

Updated 22 Jun 2026