Stunning Double Sided Antique Sanscrit Manuscript Page Sandusky cement co aged and worn just right

aged and worn just right

such that the rock formation is dark and the faces of the figures standing on it fairly obscured (Will's mother and Dewitt

with mother of pearl inlay punctuated by a pattern of brass pique nails

A little toning along the right edge

as an owl is

Stunning Double Sided Antique Sanscrit Manuscript Page Sandusky cement co aged and worn just rightNot really my expertise (what is?!) but I believe this is quite old, (18th c?) I can't read Sanscrit, and don't know the narrative being represented, but I do know it's an exquisite thing, that makes me think I really need to start paying more attention to Indian manuscripts! I've gone back and forth on which side of the double sided page I like better I'm completely smitten with this pair of men in rich red, one with fists up the other looking as if