And a Large Bird, Descending From the Sky, Hurls Itself Against the Topmost Point of Her Hair, plate 3 of 10

And a Large Bird, Descending From the Sky, Hurls Itself Against the Topmost Point of Her Hair, plate 3 of 10

Art Institute of Chicago

The pious man’s wife offers the seven-colored bird as food to her lover, but not finding its head, he breaks the pot and bowl in anger, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Fifty-second Night

Cleveland Museum of Art

The merchant hears of his wife’s unfaithfulness (above); the unfaithful wife performs penance by plucking her hair (below), from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): First Night

Cleveland Museum of Art

The pious man’s son, now a king, reveals himself to his father; his nurse upbraids his unfaithful mother, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Fifty-second Night

Cleveland Museum of Art

The woman conversing with her children, as the leopard returns, egged on by a fox who is tied to his leg, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Thirtieth Night

Cleveland Museum of Art

Royal women shooting from a pavilion

Cleveland Museum of Art

Imitation Statuette of a Kore

Getty Museum

Pendant in the Form of a Bird Atop a Disk

Getty Museum

Birds and Flowers

Cleveland Museum of Art

Leaf from a Kalighat album: Jatayu hinders Ravana’s chariot, trying to prevent the abduction of Sita (recto); Dushyanta watching his son Bharat playing with the tiger at the end of the Abhijnanashakuntalam (verso)

Cleveland Museum of Art

A woman with two children, having abandoned her home, goes into the forest where she encounters a leopard, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Thirtieth Night

Cleveland Museum of Art

A Hundred Birds and the Three Friends

Cleveland Museum of Art