id:			137877
accession number:	1962.279.37.b
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url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1962.279.37.b
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The Parrot Addresses Khujasta at the Beginning of the Sixth Night, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot), c. 1560. Dasavanta (Indian). Gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper; painting only: 8.9 x 10.6 cm (3 1/2 x 4 3/16 in.); overall: 20 x 14.3 cm (7 7/8 x 5 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. A. Dean Perry 1962.279.37.b

title:				The Parrot Addresses Khujasta at the Beginning of the Sixth Night, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot)
title in original language:	
series:				
series in original language:	
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
find spot:	
catalogue raisonne: 

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CREATORS

* Dasavanta (Indian)  - artist

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measurements: Painting only: 8.9 x 10.6 cm (3 1/2 x 4 3/16 in.); Overall: 20 x 14.3 cm (7 7/8 x 5 5/8 in.)
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	['amal da]s[wa]nt
	translation:	
	remark:		

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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

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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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	footnotes: 	
	citations: 	


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fun fact: 
Dasavanta was a mural painter discovered by emperor Akbar, who had him trained in the royal atelier.

digital description: 
Tuti the parrot begins to tell Khujasta the story of seven men who became enamored with the statue of a woman that came to life. A Persian inscription in the lower margin attributes this page to the painter Dasavanta. The golden carpet and soft tufts of grass are similar to those found on folio 32v, also attributed to Dasavanta.

wall description: 

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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	<div><!--block-->Chandra, Pramod, and Daniel J. Ehnbom. The Cleveland Tuti-Nama Manuscript and the Origins of Mughal Painting. [Cleveland]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1976.&nbsp;</div>
	page number: 	p. 93
	url:		

	Chandra, Pramod, and Daniel J. Ehnbom. <em>The Cleveland Tuti-Nama Manuscript and the Origins of Mughal Painting</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1976.
	page number: 	pp. 55, 154, 158, 183
	url:		

	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, 93
	url:		

	Seyller, John. “Overpainting in the Cleveland T̤ūtīnāma.” <em>Artibus Asiae</em> 52, no. 3/4 (1992): 283-318.
	page number: 	p. 310
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/3249892

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