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The Parrot Addresses Khujasta at the Beginning of the Twenty-Fourth Night, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot)

c. 1560

Mughal India, court of Akbar

(reigned 1556–1605)
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Medium
gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper
Measurements
Overall: 20.3 x 14 cm (8 x 5 1/2 in.); Painting only: 8.9 x 20 cm (3 1/2 x 7 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Mrs. A. Dean Perry 1962.279.165.b
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The gold sky and blue hill are traits learned from Safavid Persian painting.

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Before Khujasta can sneak away to meet her secret lover, her husband’s talking parrot, Tuti, begins to tell her a tale about a man named Bahir and his lover Habbaza. Like all Tuti’s stories, this is accompanied by a moral message and intended to keep Khujasta from leaving for the night.
A vertically oriented gum tempera and ink painting on paper depicts a woman, Khujasta, facing our left toward a green parrot in a cage. She wears an orange top and blue skirt dotted with white. To our right stands an open pavilion with pink pillars and patterned walls. Panels of black Persian script frame the scene above and below. Precise, fine lines and flat colors define the figures against rolling, stylized blue hills.

The Parrot Addresses Khujasta at the Beginning of the Twenty-Fourth Night, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot)

c. 1560

Mughal India, court of Akbar (reigned 1556–1605)

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