Rhada Bathing with Krishna Watching, Fine Antique Indian Miniature Painting, Framed as Found sensitive carving her face (such narrowly placed

her face (such narrowly placed

I imagined a cricket or a butterfly or a lightening bug as the "May Friend" this object might welcome and house

He wrote it on a bit of paper for me to write

and then with this marvelous face that reminds me of stump work pictures

3 5/16" x 2 1/2"

Rhada Bathing with Krishna Watching, Fine Antique Indian Miniature Painting, Framed as Found sensitive carving her face (such narrowly placedI purchased this one at Brimfield from a dealer of very fine things (a few of which I've brought home over the years, a 19th century flip up brass pocket pendant sun dial one of my favorites ever.) He had recently acquired a dozen or so Indian miniatures manuscript paintings from one collection, many of them erotic and all of them wonderful; this the one that called to me. (What richer, time and culture spanning art historical subject than a bathing