Rhada Bathing with Krishna Watching, Fine Antique Indian Miniature Painting, Framed as Found painted decorated carved box This wall box exemplifies a

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

surface crustiness/darkening as evident

and features the best yellow and red paint combination I’ve seen on one of these

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

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 This wall box exemplifies 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