The king plucks fruit from the Tree of Life with his own hands and feeds it to a lady, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Ninth Night
A man in a blue robe and white turban reaches for a piece of fruit on a tree with his right hand. He stands on the right side of a tree. A man to his left, wearing an orange robe and white turban, holds the tree's branches with his left hand. The tree has yellow-green leaves and orange fruit. The man in blue stands on a grassy area with three people. A man sits on a low platform. A woman wearing a pink robe sits on the grass. A man wearing orange stands on the right. The man in orange holds a blue vessel. A large block of black text in a foreign language is above the people. The image has a yellow-brown background with darker spots and a thin black border.
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