Men at Baths, Antique Persian/Ottomon Manuscript Painting with Fantastic Color and Pattern Detail old handmade miniature chair together seeing in all directions

together seeing in all directions at once

with the questions posed by a suitor and the answer returned by the recipient

and certainly more can always one found

fleeing from the headless horseman (complete with steam emanating from Gunpowder's nostrils)

or really most any outing than this flask filled with good whiskey

Men at Baths, Antique Persian/Ottomon Manuscript Painting with Fantastic Color and Pattern Detail old handmade miniature chair together seeing in all directionsI love a miniature manuscript painting those lush gouaches do it for me every time and a hot bath too, so what delight to find this one this week at a favorite treasure trove in New Hampshire. And what better vehicle for delivering the pure joys of color and pattern than rendering a variety of Middle Eastern ceramic tiles covering every surface here and framing the view, too and then yet more marvelous pattern for the water itself, in which two of the