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The two couples reach a foreign city where they make their home, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Thirty-third Night

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: 11.5 x 10.1 cm (4 1/2 x 4 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Mrs. A. Dean Perry 1962.279.222.b
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The residents of the foreign city have much whiter skin than that of the protagonists.

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Two pairs of lovers cross the bridge that leads to the gates of a new city. They have fled here together to live out the rest of their lives peacefully away from the machinations that would have otherwise kept them apart. Above the intricately patterned city walls, three men witness the group’s arrival.
A book page features Persian script in the upper third and a painting in the lower two-thirds depicting two men and two women with light skin tones entering the gates of a city over which appear three more people with light skin tones. The walls of the city alternate between brick patterns and rectangles framing square patterns, with gold and blue bands on top. One man stands on the bridge over a moat.

The two couples reach a foreign city where they make their home, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Thirty-third Night

c. 1560

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

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