The Parrot Addresses Khojasta from the Tutinama

Object Details

• Court

  Mughal Court

• School/Tradition

  Mughal school

• Description

  This page formed folio 286 of a manuscript which originally consisted of 361 folios. The illustration is on the recto (according to the Persian system), with three lines of text in naskh script above and below; and 13 lines of text on the reverse.

• Provenance

  To 1959

  The Estate of the Honorable Breckenridge Long, Laurel, Maryland, to 1959 [1]

  From 1959

  Unidentified buyer, purchased at auction, William D. Morley, Inc., Philadelphia, October 7, 1959, lot no. 2303 [2]

  Edwin Binney, 3rd, Brookline, MA [3]

  William K. Ehrenfeld (died 2005), San Francisco [4]

  From 1991

  Freer Gallery of Art, purchased at auction, Sotheby's, New York, October 28, 1991, lot no. 2 [5]

  Notes:

  [1] According to Curatorial Note 6, Milo C. Beach, November 1991, in the object record.

  [2] See note 1.

  [3] See Indian Miniature Painting from the Collections of Edwin Binney, 3rd:

  I. The Mughal and Deccani Schools (Portland Art Museum, 1973), no. 12a (according to Curatorial Note 6, Milo C. Beach, November 1991, in the object record).

  [4] See Daniel J. Ehnbom, Indian Miniatures - The Ehrenfeld Collection (Hudson Hills Press, 1985) (according to Curatorial Note 6, Milo C. Beach, November 1991, in object record).

  [5] See Curatorial Note 6, Milo C. Beach, November 1991, in object record.

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Exhibition History

  Masterworks of Indian Painting (December 13, 1997 to June 13, 1998)

  South and South East Asian Art (May 9, 1993 to February 7, 2000)

• Previous custodian or owner

  Hon. Breckenridge Long

  Edwin Binney 3rd (1925-1986)

  Dr. William K. Ehrenfeld (1935-2005)

  Sotheby's (New York)

• Origin

  India

• Credit Line

  Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment

• Type

  Painting

• Restrictions and Rights

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• Related Resources

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  1570s, 1560s

• Name

  Binney, Edwin, Sotheby's (New York), Long, Breckenridge, Ehrenfeld, William K.

• Place

  India

• Topic

  South Asian and Himalayan Art, Art, Parrot, Mughal dynasty (1526 - 1858), Reign of Akbar (1556 - 1605)

• Culture

  Himalayan peoples, South Asians

• Object Type

  Paintings