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The monk returns the magic parrot to its rightful owner, the merchant, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Tenth Night

c. 1560

Lalu

(Indian, active mid-1500s)
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Culture
Mughal India, court of Akbar (reigned 1556–1605)
Medium
gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper
Measurements
Painting only: 5.8 x 10.2 cm (2 5/16 x 4 in.); Overall: 20 x 13.2 cm (7 7/8 x 5 3/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Mrs. A. Dean Perry 1962.279.84.a
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The monk, seated and wearing a leopard-skin cape across his shoulders, hands the talking, wooden parrot back to the merchant. Previously, the monk had gotten this parrot from the wife of the vizier’s son, who had it stolen from the merchant in order to win a wager.
A book page features Persian script in the upper two-thirds and an image below depicting a man with medium skin tone seated cross-legged on our right, handing a green parrot to a standing, orange-wearing man on our left who reaches one hand to the parrot and arcs the other over his head. The man on our right sits under an overhang, wearing a blue tunic, a leopard skin over his shoulders.

The monk returns the magic parrot to its rightful owner, the merchant, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Tenth Night

c. 1560

Lalu

(Indian, active mid-1500s)
Mughal India, court of Akbar (reigned 1556–1605)

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