SOLD Lovers Out Hunting on Horseback, Indo-Persian Miniature Painting on Manuscript Page rare textile and animals along the bottom

and animals along the bottom (including little pig hidden in the green) and then the verse on the flip side

very used condition with a great presence

Late-ish 19th c

This one is such

and what a striking photograph

SOLD Lovers Out Hunting on Horseback, Indo-Persian Miniature Painting on Manuscript Page rare textile and animals along the bottomVery 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