Vishnu as Varaha Trampling Demon Hiranyaksha, Antique Indian Manuscript Painting antique watercolors Signed ASW

Signed ASW

making for easy hanging

It reminds me of passed notes in grade school (i

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

and terminating with a "lock" secured by a cross peg (akin to pegged stoppers on the inside of bottle whimsies

Vishnu as Varaha Trampling Demon Hiranyaksha, Antique Indian Manuscript Painting antique watercolors Signed ASWI 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