Fascinating Hybrid: Indo-Persian Mughal Manuscript Painting after Les Très Riches Heures du duc de Berry old jacks set painted in green and cream

painted in green and cream and red in a manner that perfectly amplifies its geometries

Photos detail the playful notes scratched into the paint everywhere

more ambitious folk art wooden houses and structures

Box measures 4 1/2" x 2 1/2" x 1"

indicating that this is is most surely its original frame

Fascinating Hybrid: Indo-Persian Mughal Manuscript Painting after Les Très Riches Heures du duc de Berry old jacks set painted in green and creamThis one has been a process trying to figure out, and remains a bit of a mystery to me still, but first and foremost I think it is just gorgeous in all of its ultra rich color and impossibly fine detail, and of course those flowers and butterflies consuming the border totally do it for me (complete with shadows, looking rather as if poised to ultimately consume the scene at center, too!) With some searching I've figured out that the scene represented