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The emir slays the snake after giving it shelter, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Forty-fifth 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: 9.9 x 10.5 cm (3 7/8 x 4 1/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Mrs. A. Dean Perry 1962.279.287.b
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242B Indian Painting
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The previous folio, showing Khujasta addressing Tuti the parrot, is currently in the collection of the National Museum of Asian Art-Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC.

Description

In the upper register, the emir addresses the snake’s owner. The snake itself hides, barely visible beneath the edge of the emir’s orange robe. In the bottom scene, the emir dashes the snake on the ground having realized that the dangerous animal planned to kill him.
Vertically oriented book page with Persian script in the upper third. Below, a painting depicts a man with light skin tone in orange robes and a grey-white horse repeated across two layers of purple-grey mountains. In the upper rendition, the cross-legged man gestures with one hand to another with light skin tone and muted green robes standing below him, and a snake, head peaking from beneath his robes, with the other. Below, he holds the snake's tail, it's head seeping blood on the grass.

The emir slays the snake after giving it shelter, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Forty-fifth Night

c. 1560

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

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