Terracotta Plate — Warli Dancers

Warli · Craft Object · Tribal

Terracotta Plate — Warli Dancers

White acrylic on terracotta plate · approx. 25 cm diameter · 2023–2025

See it on a wall

Two stick-and-triangle Warli figures — one with a flower headdress, one with a drum — face each other inside concentric saw-tooth borders on a circular terracotta plate.

Why this work

Warli is a 2,500-year-old Maharashtra tribal tradition, painted by women on mud walls with rice paste to bless weddings and harvests. Carrying it onto a terracotta plate keeps it what it has always been — living, functional, everyday ritual art rather than a museum object.

Estimate AED 450