Women Celebrating Spring Holi Festival, Gouache on Silk Vintage Indian Miniature Painting red door date of it that it

date of it that it was taken by the son

I love it as an iconic feeling object and also as a sort of metaphor--perhaps just the thing to set near something

12" l x 5 3/4" w x 5 1/2" t

Box measures 6 1/2" x 3" x 1

“nobody likes these little pests…” And then the second

Women Celebrating Spring Holi Festival, Gouache on Silk Vintage Indian Miniature Painting red door date of it that itI am not at all an expert on Indian miniature style paintings but find them quite amazing, and when I happened upon this one at an antiques shop in my neck of the woods I had to bring it home. In addition to the jewel like colors and patterns and marvelous intensity of detail, I just love the depiction of a world of women coming together. I am more or less certain it portrays two scenes at Holi, or the "Festival of Colors," marking the end of winter