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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, NY (1973)",
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"did_you_know": "The dragon threatens to singe the boar\u2019s beard.",
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"description": "A magical plant simultaneously brings forth and eats animal life in multiple forms. Playfully rendered, real and mythic creatures ripen on the vine. All stems issue from the elephant, who is about to eat the main branch, while he, in turn, emerges from one that is about to be cut by the teeth of an ibex at the lower right.
This painting would have beguiled courtly connoisseurs who enjoyed discovering visual puns in a royal album. Learned viewers would note that an animal-bearing plant recalls medieval Persian stories about the mythical island of Waq-waq, inhabited by half-plant/half-animal creatures.",
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"citation": "Quintanilla, Sonya Rhie. \u201cArt and Stories: Dazzling paintings and luxurious objects tell tales from Mughal India.\u201d Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine 56, no. 4 (July/August 2016): 5\u20137.",
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"citation": "Singh, Kavita, editor. Scent Upon a Southern Breeze: The Synaesthetic Arts of the Deccan. Mumbai, India: Marg Foundation, 2018.",
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