Women Making Paratha and Smoking Hookah, Antique North Indian Watercolor/Gouache manners Executed in watercolor

Executed in watercolor

I'm a sucker for paper cutouts of all sorts

and so good

and cut of a thin

making them feel all the more singular

Women Making Paratha and Smoking Hookah, Antique North Indian Watercolor/Gouache manners Executed in watercolorIt can be easy to stay in bubble of looking just at American, or Western, antiques and folk art, but why would one want to do that when there is so much that is amazing out there?! This painting is Indian and, though not my expertise, would I believe be referred to as a Pahari painting, c. earlyish 20th century I believe. Watercolor gouache on good weight paper, with hand written text on reverse. I of course love that it is all about women in one