Rhada Bathing with Krishna Watching, Fine Antique Indian Miniature Painting, Framed as Found painted decorated carved box but I'd never seen a

but I'd never seen a set of these Jeffereson Tiles

and in full on the back

surface crustiness/darkening as evident

I'm a sucker for old spinning tops--for me as much a vehicle for great color as anything else--and this appears an early one

does your honour descend so far as to salute a slave

Rhada Bathing with Krishna Watching, Fine Antique Indian Miniature Painting, Framed as Found painted decorated carved box but I'd never seen aI 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