The Parrot Addresses Khujasta at the Beginning of the Nineteenth Night, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot)
Colored illustration on a parchment. A man and a woman are indoors. The man is on the left, wearing an orange robe, white pants, and a headband; he has a bracelet on his right wrist and holds a red bird cage with a green parrot inside in his right hand, and a red feather duster in his left hand. The woman stands on the right, wearing a green robe and a headband; she holds a stick with a white cloth on the end in her right hand and points at the man with her left hand. The background is pink on the left with six vases hanging on the wall, and blue with gold floral pattern on the right with a low platform with two white and one yellow object on top. The roof has three white domes. The floor is green brick at the bottom and wood at a higher level where the figures stand. Black text in a foreign language is written at the top and bottom. A yellow and red border is at the top.
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