A 17th Century Painting of the Madonna.
within a Three Part Silver Filigree and Enamel Frame.
Goa Museum of Christian Art.
https://museumofchristianart.com/moca-object-detailed-view/santa-maria
The painting Indo Portuguese.
Sizes 27 x 22.5 x 2.9 cm
Inventory Number: 01.1.55
Description from the website.
The painting has multiple frames. The narrow, innermost
frame is in blue-green and gold enamel, and has a quatrefoil pattern
interspersed with curving stylized leaf motifs; it was probably painted by the
original artist. The immediate outer enamel frame in blue-green and
silver-white with touches of gold displays the artist’s whimsy, visible in the
deer, peacock, hare and dolphin (?) motifs among the floral ones, all placed
between diagonal pearl-edged bands. In decorative style, this frame has little
to do with the central theme, leading to the possibility of a second artist,
one perhaps responding to the child in the image but unfamiliar with the
context. A second outer enamel frame of blue-green carries scrolling
Mughal-style mango (Paisley) motifs in gold. The fine silver filigree work of
the outermost frame recalls the famed Tarakasi style of Odisha
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