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The Parrot Addresses Khujasta at the Beginning of the Tenth Night, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot), by Iqbal, unspecified, 1560

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

Iqbal

1560

unspecified

From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art

Mughal Painting Renaissance Renaissance

Dominant colour

The Parrot Addresses Khujasta at the Beginning of the Tenth Night, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot) is a 1560 unspecified by Iqbal, a Mughal Painting work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.

Who painted this?
Iqbal
When & what style?
1560 · Mughal Painting
Where can I see it?
Cleveland Museum of Art

About this work

You see a woman in a red dress sitting on a terrace, while a green parrot perches on a stand beside her, its beak open as if speaking. This is one page from a book of parrot tales told night after night to delay a wife’s secret meeting. The parrot’s stories always carry a moral—here, the lesson is about trust and trickery. Tiny gold details and bright colors show how important the book was to the Mughal court. To see more pages like this, look up the subject *mughal india, court of akbar (reigned 1556–1605)*.

The story of this work

Overview

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.

Did you know?

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

Read the full account in the museum source.

About the artist

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