Vishnu as Varaha Trampling Demon Hiranyaksha, Antique Indian Manuscript Painting antique watercolors excellent vintage condition

excellent vintage condition

It reminds me of passed notes in grade school (i

making for easy hanging

but what I love most is the way that the shot and eroded away parts of the head and neck/back transform this duck into a fiercer looking creature - like a serpent of some sort

with a full wick

Vishnu as Varaha Trampling Demon Hiranyaksha, Antique Indian Manuscript Painting antique watercolors excellent vintage conditionI 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