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The Parrot Addresses Khujasta at the Beginning of the Tenth Night, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot), from The Cleveland Museum of Art
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Mughal India, court of Akbar (reigned 1556–1605) / c. 1560

The Parrot Addresses Khujasta at the Beginning of the Tenth Night, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot)

The Parrot Addresses Khujasta at the Beginning of the Tenth Night, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot)

The Cleveland Museum of Art catalogs The Parrot Addresses Khujasta at the Beginning of the Tenth Night, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot) as painting (Mughal India, court of Akbar (reigned 1556–1605) · c. 1560).

WHY IT’S INTERESTING

Khujasta’s large face and the rendering of her scarf are vestiges of an earlier style.

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A CLOSER LOOK

The museum identifies this painting as gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper and credits Iqbal (Indian, active 1550s-1590s).

The museum's collection notes: Tuti the wise parrot begins to tell Khujasta a moralizing tale of a merchant, the son of a vizier, and a magical, wooden parrot. An inscription in the margin of this page attributes it to the painter Iqbal.

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The Cleveland Museum of ArtThe Parrot Addresses Khujasta at the Beginning of the Tenth Night, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot)

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