A bit of a fight

Since yesterday some battle takes place in my body against the flu' intruders - this Persian knights' fight on horseback is like portraying my fight against the virus....

When I got this hexagon treasurebox as a gift on my 10th birthday I was told that the paintbrushes used were made of a few eyelashes - such a tangling remark then, I wondered whose eyelashes would be chosen for such works and ofcourse never found out whose were