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"tombstone": "Hunting with falcons in a landscape; verso: Calligraphy of Chaghatai Turkish poems in praise of wine, Sultan Muhammad Nur (Persian, c. 1472\u20131536) and Mirza Muhammad (probably Persian, active c. 1520s), c. 1558\u201360; borders added probably 1700s. Attributed to Abd al-Samad (Persian, c. 1510\u20131600). Gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper; page: 35.7 x 24.3 cm (14 1/16 x 9 9/16 in.); painting: 21.5 x 13 cm (8 7/16 x 5 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift in honor of Madeline Neves Clapp; Gift of Mrs. Henry White Cannon by exchange; Bequest of Louise T. Cooper; Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund; From the Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection, 2013.292",
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"title": "Hunting with falcons in a landscape; verso: Calligraphy of Chaghatai Turkish poems in praise of wine, Sultan Muhammad Nur (Persian, c. 1472\u20131536) and Mirza Muhammad (probably Persian, active c. 1520s)",
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"measurements": "Page: 35.7 x 24.3 cm (14 1/16 x 9 9/16 in.); Painting: 21.5 x 13 cm (8 7/16 x 5 1/8 in.)",
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"inscription": "Recto: Inscription in upper right in nasta\u2018liq script, probably during the 1700s:\nthe work of Mir Sayyid Ali, the illustrator;",
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"inscription": "Verso: Persian inscription in central small rectangular panel below, in nasta\u2018liq script:\n\tCopied by Mirza Muhammad",
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"inscription": "Verso: Chaghatai quatrain in center, in nasta\u2018liq script:\nThe wine has made an attempt on my life,/\nSince it is the wine that can wear down the pain of separation./\nO Sufi! Let the mosque be for you, and the tavern for me,/\nSince you need to arrive at the Spring of Kowsar, while I am in need of wine!",
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"inscription": "Verso: Persian signature in lower left triangular panel:\nThe humble Sultan Muhammad Nur",
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"inscription": "Verso: Chaghatai verses in margins, in nasta\u2018liq script:\n\nSince many obscurities have become clear to you,/\nSo make it clear that you can put up with my secret pain./\nCompassion is the cure for my wounds/\nO beloved! O darling! O beauty!",
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"title": "Art and Stories from Mughal India",
"description": "Art and Stories from Mughal India. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 31-October 23, 2016).",
"opening_date": "2016-07-31T04:00:00"
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"description": "The International Exhibition of Persian Art. Burlington House, London, UK (January 7-March 7, 1931).",
"opening_date": "1931-01-07T00:00:00"
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"description": "A Flower From Every Meadow. Asia House Gallery, New York, NY; Center for Asian Art and Culture, San Francisco, CA; Albright-Know Gallery of Art, Buffalo, New York, NY (1973).",
"opening_date": "1973-01-01T00:00:00"
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"description": "Akbar's India: Art from the Mughal City of Victory. Asia Society, New York, NY (October 10, 1985-January 5, 1986); Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, MA (January 24-March 16, 1986); Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX (April 19-June 15, 1986).",
"opening_date": "1986-01-24T00:00:00"
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"description": "Masters of Indian Painting. Museum Rietberg, Z\u00fcrich, Switzerland (organizer) (April 30-August 21, 2011); The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (September 26, 2011-January 18, 2012).",
"opening_date": "2011-04-30T00:00:00"
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"description": "E. E. [Edward Earle] Meugens [1875\u20131929], Calcutta and England, by descent to J. R. Meugens",
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"date": "?\u20131929",
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"date": "1929\u20131969",
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"description": "(Sotheby\u2019s, London, Important Oriental Manuscripts and Miniatures, 1 July 1969, lot 80, sold to Ralph Benkaim)",
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"date": "July 1, 1969",
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"description": "Ralph Benkaim [1914\u20132001] and Catherine Glynn Benkaim [b. 1946], Beverly Hills, CA, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art",
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"date": "1969\u20132013",
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"did_you_know": "The hunter\u2019s glove is on the ground, as he pulls his falcon off the duck.",
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"description": "The Mughals hunted on horseback with falcons. The hunting party would ride out into the wild and flush the prey. Then, its hood removed, the falcon would chase the prey and bring it down. From childhood Akbar loved hunting, and this painting may be a rare depiction of Akbar as a youth at the lower left, with the black feather in his white turban. The falcon that has caught a duck has been hooded and is being passed between the young man and his bearded companion. This important work was painted by one of the Persian artists Akbar\u2019s father brought to India from Iran. The inscription at the upper right gives the name of one of the other Persian artists, but it is probably an erroneous later addition.
This page of delicately illuminated calligraphy from the pre-Mughal period was mounted into a Mughal album. The poems are written in the native language of the Mughals, a form of Turkish called Chaghatai, using a flowing form of Arabic script called nasta\u2018liq. The Mughals self-consciously adopted Persian as their official court language, so few Chaghatai books or works of calligraphy were made for them. The quatrain in the center reads:
The wine has made an attempt on my life, Since it is the wine that can wear down the pain of separation. O Sufi! Let the mosque be for you, and the tavern for me, Since you need to arrive at the Spring of Kowsar, while I am in need of wine! The Spring of Kowsar is where the righteous quench their thirst in the afterlife.",
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"citation": "Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain), and Arnold Talbot Wilson. Persian art: an illustrated souvenir of the exhibition of Persian art at Burlington house, London, 1931. [London]: Printed for the Executive Committee of the exhibition by Hudson & Kearns Ltd, 1931.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: cat. no. 631",
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"citation": "Wilson, Arnold Talbot. Catalogue of the International Exhibition of Persian Art; Partrons: His Majesty the King, His Majesty Riza\u0304 Sha\u0304h Pahlavi. 7th January to 28th February, 1931, Royal Academy of Arts, London. London: Office of the Exhibition [Printed by Gee & Co.], 1931.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 250, no. 631",
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"citation": "Wilson, Arnold Talbot. Catalogue of the International Exhibition of Persian Art; Partrons: His Majesty the King, His Majesty Riza\u0304 Sha\u0304h Pahlavi. 7th January to 28th February, 1931, Royal Academy of Arts, London. London: Office of the Exhibition [Printed by Gee & Co.], 1931.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 250, no. 631",
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"citation": "Welch, Stuart Cary, and Mark Zebrowski. A Flower from Every Meadow: Indian Paintings from American Collections. New York: Asia Society; distributed by New York Graphic Society, 1973.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 57, pp. 97-98",
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"citation": "Brand, Michael, and Glenn D. Lowry. Akbar's India: Art from the Mughal City of Victory. New York: Asia Society Galleries, 1985.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: cat. no. 69, p. 153; Reproduced: p. 105",
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"citation": "Datta, Rathin. The Legacy Continues... A history of Price Waterhouse, Lovelock & Lewes and PricewaterhouseCoopers Pvt. Ltd. in India. Kolkata, India: Nandini Chatterjee of PricewaterhouseCoopers Pvt. Ltd, [no pub. date].",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 11",
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"citation": "Beach, Milo Cleveland, Eberhard Fischer, B. N. Goswamy, and Jorrit Britschgi. Masters of Indian Painting. Zurich, Switzerland: Artibus Asiae Publishers, 2011.",
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"citation": "Mace, Sonya Rhie, Mohsen Ashtiany, Catherine Glynn, Pedro Moura Carvalho, Marcus Fraser, and Ruby Lal. Mughal Paintings: Art and Stories: the Cleveland Museum of Art. London: D Giles Limited, 2016.",
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"citation": "Bubbar, Prahlad. Immaculate Conception: Desire and the Creative Impulse 300BC-1930. London: Prahlad Bubbar Ltd, 2017.",
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