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The parrot addresses Khujasta at the beginning of the forty-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: 9.6 x 10.1 cm (3 3/4 x 4 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Mrs. A. Dean Perry 1962.279.282.b
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Standing against a brightly colored landscape, Khujasta consults with Tuti, the clever, talking parrot. He tells her the story of a raja whose children planned to kill him and the musician whose words brought them to their senses. This image is composed of the pale tones that were popular in a pre-Mughal Indo-Persian painting style.
A vertically oriented gum tempera and ink painting depicts five lines of Persian script across the bottom half. Above, on a hexagonal patterned floor, a woman in a pink dress gestures toward a green parrot on a cage to our left. To our right, a blue-rimmed doorway reveals a bed with patterned covers. Behind her, pink rolling hills stretch beneath a dark blue sky, a dragon-headed bracket hanging above. A thin border frames the scene.

The parrot addresses Khujasta at the beginning of the forty-fourth night, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot)

c. 1560

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

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