DOKRA VILLAGE SHEPHARD

The Village Shepherd is the quintessential imagery of a village. Here the artist imagines him idyllically playing the flute, sitting on an intricately designed horn. The GI-certified Dokra sculpture comes to you from the tribal heartland of West Bengal. The shepherd comes with a complimentary tealight pedestal, accentuating the aesthetics of your home.
Dokra is a painstaking work of craftsmanship where each piece is first moulded in wax and then coved with a layer of clay. It is then baked in a pit fire where the wax is lost through a tiny opening at the bottom, giving it the name, ‘lost wax technique’. Once cooled, molten brass is poured into the clay mould where it solidifies, taking shape of the wax model. Since each piece is hand moulded, no two pieces of Dokra are similar. Here is your chance to bring home a piece of art made using a 5000-year-old technique of metal casting.