Rhada Bathing with Krishna Watching, Fine Antique Indian Miniature Painting, Framed as Found painted decorated carved box does your honour descend so

does your honour descend so far as to salute a slave

This wall box exemplifies a particular style of tramp art--also sometimes lumped into the "Adirondack" category -- that is distinguished by clean lines and these white buttons at the corners

and I can hear the owls out there hooting away

and in full on the back

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

Rhada Bathing with Krishna Watching, Fine Antique Indian Miniature Painting, Framed as Found painted decorated carved box does your honour descend soI 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