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Khujasta kills the pet mynah who advises her not to be unfaithful to Maymun, her husband, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of the Parrot): 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: 19.9 x 14.2 cm (7 13/16 x 5 9/16 in.); Painting only: 12.9 x 10.5 cm (5 1/16 x 4 1/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Mrs. A. Dean Perry 1962.279.8.a
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Merchant ships brave treacherous waters; a distant city appears in the upper left.

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The first illustration of the Cleveland Tuti-Nama shows the merchant departing and his wife killing the mynah bird that tells her not to commit adultery. The bright red background and composition are Indian, while the delicacy of drawing is Persian, and the atmospheric effects in the upper left are a Mughal development.
A book page features Persian script in the upper fourth and a painting below depicting figures with light skin tones. In a room in the lower left, against a red backdrop, a woman stands, a blue-black bird at her feet, a bed on our right. Above the walls, a person looks over from a hut and a boat filled with people rocks over the waves. The paint has flaked away at several points.

Khujasta kills the pet mynah who advises her not to be unfaithful to Maymun, her husband, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of the Parrot): First Night

c. 1560

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

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