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Landscape with a lotus pool, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighth Night
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A serene, blue lotus pool is surrounded by plants and wildlife. Bright yellow squirrels climb up the thin trunks of date palms, while birds perch in the treetops. Fish swim in the stylized “basket-weave” water. This is one of only two non-narrative landscape scenes in this volume of the Tuti-nama .
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineLandscape with a lotus pool, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighth Night, c. 1560. Mughal India, court of Akbar (reigned 1556–1605). Gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper; painting only: 4 x 10.4 cm (1 9/16 x 4 1/8 in.); overall: 20 x 13.8 cm (7 7/8 x 5 7/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. A. Dean Perry, 1962.279.57.b
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