SOLD Lovers Out Hunting on Horseback, Indo-Persian Miniature Painting on Manuscript Page feather trimming red lined cape

red lined cape

A little paint loss/wear most notable around the edges of the stool and on one side of the whimsy

And oysters

These from the same box of pottery odds and ends as the clay dinosaur I just listed

SOLD Lovers Out Hunting on Horseback, Indo-Persian Miniature Painting on Manuscript Page feather trimming red lined capeVery lovely, a feast of delicate pinks and purples, blues and gold.. a perfect valentine I'd say, including for the quiver of arrows! I would guess that this elegant pair on horseback is meant to represent Sultan Baz Bahadur(r. 1555 1562) and his Hindu shepherdess Queen Rupmati, very often portrayed hunting on horseback as here (according to the tale she kept her husband from straying by joining him on hunts.) But the genders of these two, at least to