id:			137824
accession number:	1962.279.32.a
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1962.279.32.a
updated:		2023-08-23 21:39:05.146000

The parrot mother cautions her young on the danger of playing with foxes, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Fifth Night, c. 1560. Dasavanta (Indian, d. 1584). Gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper; overall: 20.3 x 14 cm (8 x 5 1/2 in.); painting only: 10 x 10.5 cm (3 15/16 x 4 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. A. Dean Perry 1962.279.32.a

title:				The parrot mother cautions her young on the danger of playing with foxes, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Fifth Night
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series:				
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creation date:			c. 1560
creation date earliest:		1555
creation date latest:		1565
current location:		
creditline:			Gift of Mrs. A. Dean Perry
copyright:			

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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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catalogue raisonne: 

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CREATORS

* Dasavanta (Indian, d. 1584)  - artist

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measurements: Overall: 20.3 x 14 cm (8 x 5 1/2 in.); Painting only: 10 x 10.5 cm (3 15/16 x 4 1/8 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Art and Stories from Mughal India
	opening date:   2016-07-31T04:00:00
	<i>Art and Stories from Mughal India</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 31-October 23, 2016).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* <em>Indian Miniature Rotation (Gallery 115)</em>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (February 4-August 5, 2003).

* <em>Indian Miniature Rotation (Gallery 115)</em>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (February 20-August 18, 2004).

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PROVENANCE

	Estate of Breckinridge Long [1881–1958], Bowie, MD
	date: ?–1959
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			* <div><!--block-->Samuel Miller Breckinridge Long (May 16, 1881–September 26, 1958) was an American diplomat and politician, who served in the administrations of Presidents Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Long is largely remembered for his obstructionist role as the Assistant Secretary of State responsible for granting refugee visas during World War II.&nbsp;</div><div><!--block-->His interests included the collection of antiques, paintings and American ship models. He maintained a stable of Thoroughbred race horses and was a director of the Laurel Park Racecourse in Laurel, Maryland, and he enjoyed fox hunting, fishing, and sailing.</div>
			
			
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	(Harry Burke Antiques, Philadelphia, PA)
	date: 1959–1962?
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	(Bernard Brown Agency, Milwaukee, WI, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Purchased with funds from Mrs. A. Dean [Helen Wade Greene] Perry)
	date: 1959?–1962
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1962–
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fun fact:
A fox cub suckles contentedly, as the mother keeps a sharp eye on the others.

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wall description:
One night the parrot Tuti tells Khujasta that he hopes her relationship with her new lover does not wind up being only half-baked, like the medical treatment of the king of Kamarupa. She asks what that was about, and Tuti begins the story by telling of a mother parrot who lived in the forest with her young, who liked to play with the fox cubs who lived at the base of the tree. The mother parrot is perched on the edge of her treetop nest.
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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. 78, 88
	url:		

	Kathman, Barbara A. <em>A Cleveland Bestiary</em>. Cleveland, OH; Cleveland Museum of Art, 1981.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 30; Mentioned: p. 30, p. 61
	url:		

	Seyller, John. “Overpainting in the Cleveland T̤ūtīnāma.” <em>Artibus Asiae</em> 52, no. 3/4 (1992): 283-318.
	page number: 	p. 309
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/3249892

	Ziad, Zeenut. <em>The Magnificent Mughals</em>. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.
	page number: 	Reproduced: Fig. 9, pp. 152-153
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	Seyller, John William, and W. M. Thackston. <em>The Adventures of Hamza: Painting and Storytelling in Mughal India</em>. Washington, DC: Freer Gallery of Art, 2002.
	page number: 	Reproduced: fig. 24, p.52
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	Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014.
	page number: 	Mentioned and reproduced: p. 210; Reproduced: pp. 197–198
	url:		

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