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Landscape with a lotus pool, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot), Eighth Night

c. 1560

Gujarati

(Indian, active 1550s-1590s)
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Culture
Mughal India, court of Akbar (reigned 1556–1605)
Medium
gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper
Measurements
Overall: 20 x 13.6 cm (7 7/8 x 5 3/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Mrs. A. Dean Perry 1962.279.59.a
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The inscription on this page attributes it to the same artist as the previous painting (1962.279.58.a).

Description

Two white birds wade at the edges of a dark colored lotus pool surrounded by lush green trees. Though the artist is from the western Indian state of Gujarat, many elements reveal a familiarity with Persian painting conventions, such as the arid pink ground with tufts of grass, the overlapping leaves of the trees, and the grassy sward. The water was once silver, which has now tarnished black, and white lines render swirling eddies.
A vertical manuscript page in tempera and ink depicts multiple rows of black calligraphy and one blue line in the upper portion. Below, a stylized landscape features a central dark pool with two red lotus blossoms and two gray birds. Symmetrical clusters of rounded green trees and slender palms flank the scene against a textured pink ground. Thin red and gold lines border the structured arrangement of text and imagery.

Landscape with a lotus pool, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot), Eighth Night

c. 1560

Gujarati

(Indian, active 1550s-1590s)
Mughal India, court of Akbar (reigned 1556–1605)

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