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        "tombstone": "The king of Bahilistan offers his daughter to the King of Kings, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Seventh Night, c. 1560. Mughal India, court of Akbar (reigned 1556\u20131605). Gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper; overall: 20.3 x 14 cm (8 x 5 1/2 in.); painting only: 10.6 x 10 cm (4 3/16 x 3 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. A. Dean Perry, 1962.279.46.b",
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        "title": "The king of Bahilistan offers his daughter to the King of Kings, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Seventh Night",
        "creation_date": "c. 1560",
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            "Mughal India, court of Akbar (reigned 1556\u20131605)"
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        "department": "Indian and Southeast Asian Art",
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        "type": "Painting",
        "measurements": "Overall: 20.3 x 14 cm (8 x 5 1/2 in.); Painting only: 10.6 x 10 cm (4 3/16 x 3 15/16 in.)",
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            "current": [
                {
                    "id": 196054,
                    "title": "Streams and Mountains Without End: Asian Art and the Legacy of Sherman E. Lee at the Cleveland Museum of Art",
                    "description": "<i>Streams and Mountains Without End: Asian Art and the Legacy of Sherman E. Lee at the Cleveland Museum of Art</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 27-August 23, 2009).",
                    "opening_date": "2009-06-27T04:00:00"
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                {
                    "description": "Main gallery rotation (Gallery 245): November 2, 2015 - April 4, 2016.",
                    "opening_date": "2015-11-02T00:00:00"
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            {
                "description": "Estate of Breckinridge Long [1881\u20131958], Bowie, MD",
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                    "<div><!--block-->Samuel Miller Breckinridge Long (May 16, 1881\u2013September 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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                "date": "?\u20131959",
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            {
                "description": "(Harry Burke Antiques, Philadelphia, PA)",
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                "date": "1959\u20131962?",
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            {
                "description": "(Bernard Brown Agency, Milwaukee, WI, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Purchased with funds from Mrs. A. Dean [Helen Wade Greene] Perry)",
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                "footnotes": null,
                "date": "1959?\u20131962",
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                "description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH",
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                "date": "1962\u2013",
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        "did_you_know": "The domed pavilions are typical features of Mughal architecture, with the pink sandstone eves.",
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        "description": "The local king was so moved by the gesture of the King of King\u2019s in support of the dervish and by his cleverness at bringing his own head, still attached, that he offered his daughter in marriage to him. The princess, wearing Indian dress, is shown honoring his feet. The male figures wear the Central Asian dress of the Mughals, with a long belted tunic and pants. The King of Kings then allowed her to marry the dervish. A fancy door with geometric patterns is in the background, but it extends all the way down to the front of the floor, which has been tilted up, so that the tile pattern can be seen head-on. These fanciful manipulations of space are a hallmark of local Indian artistic practice.",
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                "citation": "Chandra, Pramod, and Daniel J. Ehnbom. The Cleveland Tuti-Nama Manuscript and the Origins of Mughal Painting. [Cleveland]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1976.",
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                "citation": "<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>",
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                "citation": "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, 96",
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            {
                "citation": "Seyller, John. \u201cOverpainting in the Cleveland T\u0324\u016bt\u012bn\u0101ma.\u201d <em>Artibus Asiae</em> 52, no. 3/4 (1992): 283-318.",
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            "Page from Tales of a Parrot (Tuti-nama): Seventh night: the king of Bahilistan offers his daughter to the King of Kings"
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