Smoking Hookah, Many Faces, Regal Couple: Antique Double-sided Indian Manuscript Page milton bradley flash cards Certainly it is a stuffed

Certainly it is a stuffed one

and pulling apart as needed

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 the very primitive ones perhaps by another

with one very tiny barely there sailing ship in the far distance at right in addition to the one nearer afield at left

Smoking Hookah, Many Faces, Regal Couple: Antique Double-sided Indian Manuscript Page milton bradley flash cards Certainly it is a stuffedI 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