Balakrishna with a Pat of Butter - 01

This is a reverse glass painting from southern India.
Infant Krishna is shown seated on a jewelled throne, with his right hand holding a ball of butter, and his left hand on the armrest. Krishna, naked but for his sumptuous jewellery, sits in a hall defined by pillars and an ostentatious curtain hanging from the ceiling. As always, Krishna is depicted as a chubby child, a part of his hair tied in a topknot adorned by jewels and the characteristic peacock feather. He is flanked by three elegantly dressed and bejewelled attendants, two of them ready to hand him more butter, while the third stands holding a parrot. In the foreground is a capacious bowl filled with fruit.