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

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

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

Clearly a portrait of a specific place

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

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