Lifestyle craft titled 'Kathakali Tea Kettle', 9x9x7 inches, by artist Rithika Kumar on Aluminium
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Kathakali Tea Kettle Aluminium Lifestyle Handicraft

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Type Original
Size  9x9x7 in/23x23x18 cm
Material Aluminium
Type Handicraft
Subject Lifestyle
Medium Aluminium
Shape Square
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Functional Art, Hand-Painted, Folk Motif, Vibrant Color, Domestic Ritual, Portrait Icon, Cultural Identity
Description

This painted kettle turns an everyday vessel into a stage for iconography, where the stylized female visage—framed like a devotional portrait—anchors the composition with direct, unwavering gaze. Saturated fields of blue, red, and green collide against the glossy metal body, creating a festive tension between domestic function and ceremonial presence. The sweeping magenta spout and looping handle read like gestural calligraphy, suggesting that utility can carry lineage, ornament, and identity as fluently as it carries water. In its bold, folk-inflected patterning, the object becomes a quiet manifesto: tradition survives not in museums alone, but in the rituals of daily use.

Type

Original

Size

9x9x7

Material

Aluminium

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