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The deceitful wife persuades her husband to sleep in the same place where she had previously slept with her lover, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighth Night

Cleveland Museum of Art

Colorful illustration of a scene with two people indoors and one person outdoors. The indoor scene shows a man reclining on a platform bed with a yellow canopy; he wears white pants and a patterned top and has black hair. The woman sits next to the man on the bed; she has a patterned dress, a yellow head covering, and her hair is black. The platform bed sits in a pink and yellow room. An arched blue window on an adjacent wall is open and leads to an exterior area where a person stands outside; this person wears a pink robe. The background shows white clouds and blue sky. The image contains Arabic script.

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