Rhada Bathing with Krishna Watching, Fine Antique Indian Miniature Painting, Framed as Found sensitive carving The center leg broke at

The center leg broke at some point and was mended with a thinner piece of wood that works perfectly and is not visible from the front when stood up

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

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

her face (such narrowly placed

or just hang via pinning by the top corners

Rhada Bathing with Krishna Watching, Fine Antique Indian Miniature Painting, Framed as Found sensitive carving The center leg broke atI 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