Muscat / Store displays & resale stock
As Muscat Daily reported, National Day materials showing Oman's flag, State Emblem, official map or His Majesty's portrait need a license from the commerce ministry before production.
A fashion, perfume or jewelry brand planning a Muscat National Day window will find its answers here. So will a furniture showroom adding display canvases, or a decor retailer building a resale range. Each one checks what the canvas may show and which size to choose. A resale range also plans its Arabic label lines.
PaletteMomento is a hand-painting studio in Dafen Art Village, Shenzhen, China. You can start with one display canvas or one artwork code. Before anything ships, you approve daylight photos of every finished canvas.
Our fastest way to discuss your schedule and price. The written quote follows by email for your records.
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01 / Choose what the canvas may show
As Muscat Daily reported, Oman's Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Investment Promotion (MoCIIP) sets rules for national images on commercial products. The rules cover all of Oman, not only Muscat. We suggest building both your resale list and your display designs around them. What follows is the rule as Muscat Daily reported it, not the ministry's own notice.
Muscat Daily reported in August 2026 that some images need MoCIIP approval before they go on commercial products. They include Oman's flag, the State Emblem, the official map and the portrait of His Majesty Sultan Haitham bin Tarik. In September 2026, it reported that National Day materials with these elements need a license before production. The September report lists them “among the elements”, so the list may not be complete.
In August 2026, Muscat Daily reported that the Royal Emblem and images of royal palaces and royal mosques are prohibited on commercial products. A 2024 report said organizations may apply for a license to use certain images.
A sea, harbor, mountain or desert landscape, or an abstract, can be painted without any of the elements above. You choose these subjects and check them yourself. Look at the whole view. A flag on a mast, or a royal palace on the shore, moves a piece into the first two cards.
For a perfume, fashion or jewelry display that shows a listed symbol, we suggest asking the ministry how its license applies to your use. The final choice of each subject stays with your team.
02 / Time a National Day piece
National Day falls on 20 November each year. As Muscat Daily reported, a license application goes to the ministry's licensing department by hand, in person. It carries images of the intended product and of the symbols or logos it uses. So the design image has to exist before you apply, and painting follows the license. That image is your own approved reference or design file.
03 / Size against the chains
Your painted range will be compared with prices that shoppers in Oman can already see online. On 3 October 2026, we checked two home-store websites that serve Oman. They show where a hand-painted canvas has little room, and where it has more.
| What shoppers can already buy, at the listed price | What it means for your painted range |
|---|---|
Small printed pictures A big-box home store's Oman website listed printed pictures from about OMR 3.5. A 70 × 50 cm print was about OMR 7.5, and posters cost less. | Leave small sizes and gallery-wall sets to print.At these sizes, a painted canvas is compared with a few rials. Your painted budget does more on a larger wall. |
Framed “hand-painted” 80 × 120 cm abstracts A national home-furnishings chain with stores in Al Khuwair and Ma'abilah listed them at about OMR 22 to 30. | Avoid a generic abstract near this size.Here shoppers already see the words “hand-painted” beside a price of about OMR 22. A similar canvas on your wall invites the same comparison. We suggest moving your range away from this format, as the next row shows. |
Your made-to-measure statement canvas Quoted for your size and presentation. | Give shoppers what those listings do not.You can offer a larger or exact-width canvas, a subject the chains do not carry, and paint shoppers can see up close. You set the image width and height for each artwork code. |
A palette-knife canvas like this wave shows ridges of paint that a shopper can see from the aisle. Next to a printed picture, that raised paint is something a shopper notices before reading the price.
Illustrative arithmetic only. It is not our price.
04 / Label each piece in Arabic
Article 19 of Oman's Consumer Protection Law (Royal Decree 66/2014) lists information to show in Arabic, visibly on the goods. Another language may be added. Article 20 says suppliers and advertisers must avoid false or misleading promotion. You can read the text on Qanoon.om, which says it is not an official source. The official version is in Official Gazette no. 1081.
So we suggest using “hand-painted” only on pieces that are painted by hand. Before you order resale stock, list the label lines you need for each artwork code. The table shows what we can tell you for the items Article 19 lists.
| Item Article 19 lists | For a canvas painted by us |
|---|---|
Name of the material and its components | Acrylic on premium linen, or oil on linen when you order oil. For stretched or framed parts, tell us your requirement and we confirm in the quote what we can do. |
Country of origin | China. Each canvas is painted in Dafen Art Village, Shenzhen. We suggest keeping anything that hints at Omani manufacture off the label and the shelf, as our Hamburg retail guide explains. |
Price | Set by your shop, for each piece on sale. |
Other items, such as weight or a standard number | Article 19 lists these as well. Check with your adviser which of them apply to a painting. |
We can include a packing list that shows which paintings, by artwork code and size, are in each case. Your team can then match each label to its canvas at receiving.
One painter paints each canvas directly on linen, as our painting process shows. For the wording of a medium line, see the label card in our Dubai galleries guide.
05 / Mark the licensed pieces
If one does, we can quote it from the approved design image you file with your license application, and you order once licensed.
Selling views of Muscat to visitors? That range has its own Muscat souvenir guide.
06 / Symbols, labels and repeat stock
Muscat Daily's August 2026 report names royal mosques, not every mosque, but it lists no building and also mentions “certain sensitive national and religious sites”. So we suggest naming the exact building when you ask the ministry, since a mosque that is not royal may still be covered.
We suggest applying first: in October 2023, Muscat Daily reported that the ministry asked businesses to apply for approval before using the national emblem on products or advertisements. The same report said ministry inspections of shops had confiscated unlicensed products showing the Royal Emblem, the flag or the map. It named no locations, and it describes 2023, not inspections today.
Your team or your translator writes the Arabic text for Muscat product labels. Our quote names the medium on linen, a packing list we can include gives the size by artwork code, and the country of origin is China. We suggest planning the translation before the canvases arrive, so the labels are ready at receiving.
Yes, the label details we supply stay the same when a Muscat reorder keeps the artwork code, size and medium. Each repeat is painted by hand, so it matches the first batch closely but never exactly. If the first batch was stretched or framed, name that presentation and size again with the artwork code, so the reorder is quoted the same way. If you change the size or switch to oil, we suggest updating those label lines before the new stock arrives.
Yes, you choose the image width and height, so a Muscat showroom can order a 160 cm wide image. At that width, the piece stays clear of the 80 × 120 cm abstracts a national chain listed online in October 2026, at about OMR 22 to 30. Rolled, stretched and framed versions are quoted separately, so you can compare them for that wall.
Label lines per code
Send the artwork codes you plan to stock and the label lines each one needs, and we quote each code with its medium, size and presentation.
Our fastest way to discuss your schedule and price. The written quote follows by email for your records.
WhatsApp: usually an immediate reply.
Email: usually within 12 hours. Monday–Sunday.
support@palettemomento.comOr share your brief through our quote form.