Smoking Hookah, Many Faces, Regal Couple: Antique Double-sided Indian Manuscript Page milton bradley flash cards and I'd call it Brutalist--unapologetically

and I'd call it Brutalist--unapologetically bold and rough and all about its materiality--but also rather playful about it function as a vase

and gave it special treatment by placing it in a really lovely recently purchased 19th century lemon gold frame that was waiting for the right thing and which I think honors it properly

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I just think it is a pretty great object

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Smoking Hookah, Many Faces, Regal Couple: Antique Double-sided Indian Manuscript Page milton bradley flash cards and I'd call it Brutalist--unapologeticallyI purchased this from a dealer in my neck of the woods, who travelled and collected extensively, and interestingly, in Southeast Asia over many years. The text here is in Hindi, though I have not managed to translate it. What struck me first was the wonderful grid of faces of this woman at lower left, a mix of frontal and profile views with some great expressions among them, looking a whole lot like strips of photo booth selfies (or an instagram