Shiv Parvathy Cheriyal Mask – Hand-painted Folk Art tholu flower coasters Are these usable in the

Are these usable in the kitchen

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A good pick for collectors who want variety across a single set of 6 rather than one repeated motif — each coaster reads slightly differently while staying within the same folk tradition

Shiv Parvathy Cheriyal Mask – Hand-painted Folk Art tholu flower coasters Are these usable in theShiva and Parvati appear frequently across Cheriyal's traditional mould set, made by Nakashi artisans in Cheriyal village near Warangal in Telangana as part of a mask making craft close to 400 years old. In this set, the two are rendered as a pair of individual masks, each built and painted separately, meant to be hung together as the divine couple rather than merged into one composite face. Shiva's mask carries the expected iconography a crescent