Tikuli - Artwork 721

A horizontal narrative scene worked in gold on a dark ground, this panel depicts a ceremonial or courtly procession with elegantly posed figures and architectural elements.

The careful linear ornament, repeated pillar forms and garlands create a frieze-like composition that reads as a single continuous tableau across the length of the board. The restrained two-tone treatment—gold motifs on black—gives the work a jewel-like quality and underscores its decorative purpose; figures are stylised with flattened profiles and patterned garments, and the rhythmic repetition of forms produces a meditative, processional movement across the picture plane.