Interlaced Horses, Stunning Antique Gouache Indo-Persian Miniature Painting on Card, Framed as Found beach photo what a charming pair

what a charming pair

Perhaps a menagerie of cut paper animals--and soldiers

Glossy print with black perimeter frame part of photo

and one stamp-collaged dragonfly fluttering around among them

I don't know what to say

Interlaced Horses, Stunning Antique Gouache Indo-Persian Miniature Painting on Card, Framed as Found beach photo what a charming pairThis painting DEFIES good documentation I've tried again and again, but can't get a high resolution photo in sharp focus, or to quite match the green details here are most helpful. I found this at an old school, longstanding antique shop in my neck of the woods this week it had just come in, and I must say it stopped me in my tracks! At some point I must have seen the most well known example of this "interlaced horses" motif from the Safavid period,