id:			137478
accession number:	1962.279.155.a
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1962.279.155.a
updated:		2023-03-10 19:42:34.392000

The court jester meets a Zangi dancing with joy, and learns from him that the cause of his happiness is his assignation with a woman who is the jester’s own wife, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Twenty-second Night, c. 1560. Mughal India, court of Akbar (reigned 1556–1605). Gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper; overall: 20.3 x 14 cm (8 x 5 1/2 in.); painting only: 6.1 x 10.2 cm (2 3/8 x 4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. A. Dean Perry 1962.279.155.a

title:				The court jester meets a Zangi dancing with joy, and learns from him that the cause of his happiness is his assignation with a woman who is the jester’s own wife, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Twenty-second Night
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creation date:			c. 1560
creation date earliest:		1555
creation date latest:		1565
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creditline:			Gift of Mrs. A. Dean Perry
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culture:	Mughal India, court of Akbar (reigned 1556–1605)
technique:	gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper
department:	Indian and Southeast Asian Art
collection:	Indian Art
type:		Painting
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measurements: Overall: 20.3 x 14 cm (8 x 5 1/2 in.); Painting only: 6.1 x 10.2 cm (2 3/8 x 4 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Indian Gallery 242b Rotation – November 2016
	opening date:   2016-11-07T05:00:00
	<i>Indian Gallery 242b Rotation – November 2016</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (November 7, 2016-April 10, 2017).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Estate of Breckenridge Long, Bowie, MD, 1959; Harry Burke Antiques, Philadelphia, PA; Bernard Brown, Milwaukee, WI;
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fun fact:
The tale references stereotypes about Africans that were current in India and Iran when the text was written.

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wall description:
In the opening scene of the parrot’s bawdy story about a jester, who is shown wearing green on his way to perform at the court of the emir, he came upon an Ethiopian, known as Zangi, dancing by the side of the road. When he learned that the Zangi was overjoyed because he was planning to meet his beloved, the jester’s own wife, the jester was so distraught he was unable to perform, and the emir threw him in prison. The artist depicted the Zangi as described in the text as semi-wild with caricatured physical traits, uncovered head, and little clothing.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Chandra, Pramod, and Daniel J. Ehnbom. The Cleveland Tuti-Nama Manuscript and the Origins of Mughal Painting. [Cleveland]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1976.
	page number: 	p. 122
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	Seyller, John. “Overpainting in the Cleveland T̤ūtīnāma.” <em>Artibus Asiae</em> 52, no. 3/4 (1992): 283-318.
	page number: 	p. 316
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/3249892

	Mace, Sonia Rhie, Dominique DeLuca, Dominique DeLuca, Mohsen Ashtiany, and Cleveland Museum of Art. Mughal Paintings: Art and Stories. [London] D Giles Limited, 2016.
	page number: 	p. 244
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