JH Gallery Rajasthani Camel Rider Doll Couple Showpiece - 18 cm

Product Highlights

• WHAT YOU ACTUALLY GET - 1 CAMEL RIDER DOLL COUPLE: This set is a couple seated together on a camel, the rider in a turban and the woman in a mirrored odhni. Made of recycled material, hand painted. CHECK THE SIZE BEFORE YOU BUY: the piece is about 18 cm long and 16 cm tall. These are small, shelf-sized dolls, not life-size puppets - the photographs are shot close up, so please go by the centimetres and not by the picture. Every face and every stitch is done by hand.
• WHERE PEOPLE KEEP THEM: On a centre table, an office desk or a mandir shelf. They are the rajasthani decorative items families use to fill a shelf that looks bare - small enough to sit in front of books or beside a photo frame, and light enough to move while dusting. Nothing has to be fixed to the wall and nothing needs a stand; they stand on their own on any flat surface.
• READY FOR GOLU AND THE FESTIVAL STEPS: Navratri golu and kolu displays need figures that read clearly from a distance, and one large figure anchors the top step where small ones get lost. The same pieces come out again for Dussehra, Diwali, a mandir corner at Ganesh Chaturthi, and for a wedding or sangeet table where a dulha dulhan style doll display is set up. Nothing on them is tied to one festival, so they are stored and reused every year.
• GIFTS AND SOUVENIRS: This is what people pick up as a return gift, a corporate Diwali gift or a present for a new home. It travels well - light, small and not fragile in the way a clay or a stone piece is - which is why it is also bought in numbers as a Rajasthani souvenir to carry abroad. It arrives in a protective box, so no extra wrapping is needed to hand it over.
• HANDMADE IN MERTA CITY, RAJASTHAN BY JH GALLERY ARTISANS: Each piece is shaped, painted and then dressed by hand as a single piece in our own karigar workshop, so faces, turbans and fabric prints differ slightly from one to the next - that is the mark of real handwork, not a fault. Care: dust with a dry soft cloth or a soft brush. Keep it out of water and direct sun so the fabric colours hold.