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The parrot addresses Khujasta at the beginning of the fifty-second night, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Fifty-second 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: 8.3 x 10.2 cm (3 1/4 x 4 in.)
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Gift of Mrs. A. Dean Perry 1962.279.332.b
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Tuti is telling Khujasta a story about how the son of a pious man became a king.

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On the final night of the Tuti-nama, Khujasta asks Tuti the parrot if she can leave to visit her lover. As the story ends, Khujasta’s husband, Maymun, returns home from his journey. Her affair is revealed, and she is ultimately killed. Maymun shaves his head, dons the robes of an ascetic, and enters a hermitage.
This manuscript page features black Persian script below a painting of a woman with light skin tone gesturing toward a green parrot in a golden cage. She wears a short orange top and a checkered purple and white skirt. The cage sits within a small pavilion with slender pink columns and a white dome. Densely patterned walls and a brick background extend behind them, all framed by a red and gold border.

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

c. 1560

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

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