id:			137763
accession number:	1962.279.291.b
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1962.279.291.b
updated:		2022-03-04 10:00:39.585000

The court of the Raja of Ujjain, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Forty-sixth 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: 15.9 x 10.1 cm (6 1/4 x 4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. A. Dean Perry 1962.279.291.b

title:				The court of the Raja of Ujjain, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Forty-sixth 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: 15.9 x 10.1 cm (6 1/4 x 4 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Animal Fables of India (Indian art rotation)
	opening date:   2021-03-12T05:00:00
	<i>Animal Fables of India (Indian art rotation)</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 12-August 29, 2021).

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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 artist of this folio attempted to make the windows on the back wall appear three dimensional.

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wall description: 
When out hunting, the formidable raja of Ujjain captured a fantastic animal and brought it back to his court. It is described as being so soft that the fur of his body “made the back of the sable seem as hard as stone and the smoothness of whose coat made the fur of the ermine feel like the anvil of a blacksmith.” <br><br>In devising this wondrous creature’s appearance, the artist gave him cloven hoofs, a beak, and horns, as though inspired by European images of griffins, but with soft-looking fur.
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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: 	pp. 79, 145
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