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4 1/4" x 3 1/6"
handwoven and dating I believe to the 1940s or so
laid paper with woodblock and watercolor
as they were clearly meant to be together forever
Vishnu as Varaha Trampling Demon Hiranyaksha, Antique Indian Manuscript Painting threshing counter 4 1/4" x 3 1/6"I think really nothing beats the color of opaque watercolors used for manuscript paintings like this, just out of this world, and with gold and silver leaf incorporated here too. The subject here is the Hindu deity Vishnu, protector and preserver of the universe, here incarnate as Varaha, with a boar's head and four armed human body (conch shell in one hand, Sudarshana chakra in another, trampling the demon Hiranyaksha as he rescues the Earth. Seems
