Interlaced Horses, Stunning Antique Gouache Indo-Persian Miniature Painting on Card, Framed as Found little wooden boot with really beautiful variegated color

with really beautiful variegated color on the embroidery

which is signed on the bottom

was inspired by on-- in which all sorts of things transpired

Framed: 5 7/8” w and t x 1 5/8” d

Wear as evident and the rendering of the book is a bit wonky (maybe a few lost stitches

Interlaced Horses, Stunning Antique Gouache Indo-Persian Miniature Painting on Card, Framed as Found little wooden boot with really beautiful variegated colorThis 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,