Stately Wall Art

Stately — 8 museum-grade prints that set the mood. Thrissur Pooram, held at the Vadakkunnathan temple in Thrissur, is one of Kerala's grandest temple festivals — rows of caparisoned elephants, the percussion ensemble, and the kudamattam exchange of brightly coloured silk parasols. The caparison includes the nettipattam, the golden forehead-net, while riders bear the aalavattam round fan, the venchamaram white whisk and the muthukuda decorated parasols, all to the beat of the chenda drums. Rank 27 in Heritage Icons documents the Rolls-Royce Phantom as a marque specimen — Rolls-Royce Phantom chassis served as blank canvases for coachbuilders from Park Ward to James Young — tall vertical grilles, Spirit of Ecstasy hood ornaments, and hand-built saloon bodies that defined British state-car protocol for decades. The plate treats coachwork, era, and silhouette as catalog facts on warm stone paper, exactly as a museum marque icon layout demands before you open the ownership history. Cows are the heart of Pushtimarg (Vallabh) devotion — go-seva, the care of cattle, is inseparable from worship of Shrinathji, the cowherd child-Krishna of the Nathdwara haveli-temple in Rajasthan. The dhenu-pankti, the horizontal row of cows, is one of the most characteristic pichwai motifs.

Updated 22 Jun 2026