Bengali Fashion Lifestyle During Gangaridai Civilization

A masterpiece antique to describe about ancient Bengali fashion & lifestyle during Gangaridai civilization. 

Gangaridai Plaque with a Royal Family, Chandraketugarh, West Bengal, 1st century BCE. 

Source: The MetArt... https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/38575

This family scene and the touching intimacy that permeates it are unusual in Indian terracotta. With his left hand, the man, seated on a chair, holds the back of his wife's head: she stands before him and gently caresses his knees. The Gangaridae Men wore leftward leaning peaked turbans. 

A small figure, thought the couple's son, is shown seated, besides a dog he holds by its leash, in the foreground. Two ducks appear at the lower left while at the far right, fragments of a monkey, climbing the leg of the chair, can be seen.

However the interesting part is the "Wrong" depiction of the woman's palm on the man's knee... Is it intentional??? or a "mistake"??? 
Also see the child wearing heavy clothing... So could it be Winter??? And the Lady's elaborate Hairdo...

© Jayen Mistry 

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