SOLD Lovers Out Hunting on Horseback, Indo-Persian Miniature Painting on Manuscript Page feather trimming and presume the shirtless man

and presume the shirtless man with back turned to the camera is the tamer of sorts

From what I have learned

I’d put a hook on the back and hang it on the wall

looking almost like a paw

SOLD Lovers Out Hunting on Horseback, Indo-Persian Miniature Painting on Manuscript Page feather trimming and presume the shirtless manVery lovely, a feast of delicate pinks and purples, blues and gold.. a perfect valentine I'd say, including for the quiver of arrows! I would guess that this elegant pair on horseback is meant to represent Sultan Baz Bahadur(r. 1555 1562) and his Hindu shepherdess Queen Rupmati, very often portrayed hunting on horseback as here (according to the tale she kept her husband from straying by joining him on hunts.) But the genders of these two, at least to