The snake, hidden in a basket of flowers, reveals himself to the Raja who has just sent away his wife, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Forty-third Night
Man reclining on a patterned rug in a room with a green floor, wearing a blue tunic and patterned cloth wrapped around his body. He wears a headdress and rests his elbow on his knee and his head on his hand. Woman standing to his right, wearing blue and white patterned skirt, gold bracelets on both wrists, gold necklace, gold ornament on her forehead and her hair pulled back. A snake emerges from a basket of flowers on the floor beside the man. The room has white walls with a red patterned section and two windows with yellow and black shutters. A roof overhang supported by red columns and decorated with orange trim. Blue sky with white clouds in the background. Writing in a foreign script borders the top and bottom.
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