Fascinating Hybrid: Indo-Persian Mughal Manuscript Painting after Les Très Riches Heures du duc de Berry couple in sled and gathering stitches to give

and gathering stitches to give shape to her nose

A total charmer I think

those huge eyes seem as if seeing straight into one's soul

as if to say hands--or bottoms--off

To the right

Fascinating Hybrid: Indo-Persian Mughal Manuscript Painting after Les Très Riches Heures du duc de Berry couple in sled and gathering stitches to giveThis one has been a process trying to figure out, and remains a bit of a mystery to me still, but first and foremost I think it is just gorgeous in all of its ultra rich color and impossibly fine detail, and of course those flowers and butterflies consuming the border totally do it for me (complete with shadows, looking rather as if poised to ultimately consume the scene at center, too!) With some searching I've figured out that the scene represented