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The parrot addresses Khujasta at the beginning of the fifty-first night, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Fifty-first 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: 8.5 x 9.9 cm (3 3/8 x 3 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Mrs. A. Dean Perry 1962.279.324.b
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A thin, gold chain keeps Tuti anchored to his cage.

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As the sun sets on the fifty-first of fifty-two nights, Khujasta prepares to leave to meet her lover. She is stopped by Tuti, the shrewd, talking parrot, who tells her a story about the cruel King Bahram and the misfortune that befell his vizier’s daughter.
A vertical manuscript page features seven rows of black Persian script above a painting. A woman with light skin tone, wearing an orange top and blue skirt, stands on the right, gesturing toward a green parrot atop a cage. The scene is set against a brick-red wall and a floor with a dense, orange and white geometric star pattern. On the far left, a dark-framed window is set into the wall.

The parrot addresses Khujasta at the beginning of the fifty-first night, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Fifty-first Night

c. 1560

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

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