The merchant has the hateful skull ground and put into a box, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Twenty-third Night
The image depicts a colorful illustration from a book titled "Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Twenty-third Night". The illustration shows four men in a room. The man on the left stands wearing a purple robe and a white cap with a gold band, holding a sword. To his right, three men sit on a blue carpet with gold designs. The man on the far right wears a green robe and sits cross-legged. The man in the middle wears a purple robe and sits with his legs crossed. The seated man to his right wears an orange robe and white pants; he holds a white object in his right hand. The room has a pink wall with diamond-shaped designs, and a red section below with circular designs. Two windows are on either side of a black doorway. The room has a gold border at the top and a yellow decorative beam. The background above the illustration is aged paper with black foreign script. The bottom of the image is bordered by gold.
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