Interlaced Horses, Stunning Antique Gouache Indo-Persian Miniature Painting on Card, Framed as Found beach photo most often inside of hearts

most often inside of hearts

together at an antiques show in NH this week

and make one (me) think it would be pretty fun to introduce some secret codes into daily life

and one stamp-collaged dragonfly fluttering around among them

I don't know what to say

Interlaced Horses, Stunning Antique Gouache Indo-Persian Miniature Painting on Card, Framed as Found beach photo most often inside of heartsThis painting DEFIES good documentation I've tried again and again, but can't get a high resolution photo in sharp focus, or to quite match the green details here are most helpful. I found this at an old school, longstanding antique shop in my neck of the woods this week it had just come in, and I must say it stopped me in my tracks! At some point I must have seen the most well known example of this "interlaced horses" motif from the Safavid period,