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Cleveland Museum of Art

128 works

Open album page with pink mallow flowers, yellow centers, green lobed leaves and buds on a pale background.

Desk Album: Flower and Bird Paintings (mallow flowers)

Two crested gray birds perch among white blossoms and pink buds on a branch, with a small insect near the lower right.

Flowers and Birds

Qian Xuan, first half of the 14th Century

Ink painting of two sparrows on a blossoming plum branch above a rock, with a signature and red seal at right.

Sparrows on Blossoming Plum; A Sage with Tiger; Chinese Bird on Snow-Laden Branch

Kano Tan'yu, 1661

Open album page with a climbing vine of blue flowers, green leaves and pods on a gray branch, watercolor on paper.

Desk Album: Flower and Bird Paintings (Climbing Blue Flowers)

Birds Gather under the Spring Willow

Birds Gather under the Spring Willow

Yin Hong, late 1400s-early 1500

Ink painting of a long-tailed bird with red feet perched on a snow-covered branch against a grey background.

Chinese Bird on Snow-Laden Branch

Kano Tan'yu, 1661

Open album spread of painted pink flowers in blue, red, magenta, peach and white with green leaves and buds.

Desk Album: Flower and Bird Paintings (Pinks)

The Parrot Addresses Khujasta at the Beginning of the Tenth Night, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot)

The Parrot Addresses Khujasta at the Beginning of the Tenth Night, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot)

Iqbal, c. 1560

Eagle on a Tree Trunk

Eagle on a Tree Trunk

Huang Shen, 1755

Watercolor album page of a rose branch with two pink roses, buds, and serrated green leaves on pale paper.

Desk Album: Flower and Bird Paintings (Rose)

Two-panel gold screen with peafowl and phoenix birds among bamboo, pine, and trees on a gold leaf background.

Peafowl and Phoenixes

Tosa Mitsuyoshi, late 1500s

Miniature painting of foxes playing beneath a flowering tree with parrots, above a block of Persian calligraphy.

The parrot mother cautions her young on the danger of playing with foxes, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Fifth…

Daswanth, c. 1560

Pink peony blooms, buds and green lobed leaves painted across an open album page.

Desk Album: Flower and Bird Paintings (Peony)

Persian miniature: a prince sleeps under a canopy as attendants handle a slain monkey over a blood bowl, c. 1560.

The monkey slain, his blood to be used as medicine for the ailing prince he has bitten, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a…

Basawan, c. 1560

Miniature painting of a man offering a green parrot in a cage to a seated figure in a gilded courtly pavilion, with attendant

The hunter offers the mother parrot to the king of Kamarupa, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Fifth Night

Basavana, c. 1560

Open album page with a gray bird preening on a branch beside white blossoms and green leaves.

Desk Album: Flower and Bird Paintings (Preening Bird)

Miniature painting of a seated ruler watching attendants seize a bound man while an executioner approaches, under a red pavil

The prince’s ordeal continues, he is ordered away to be executed for the fifth time, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Par…

Ghulam 'Ali, c. 1560

Miniature painting of a seated prince with musicians and an executioner beside a fallen figure, with Persian text below.

The young prince is crowned and the wicked handmaiden is executed, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighth Night

Suraju, c. 1560

Album leaf with bamboo, rocks, orchids, gold clouds, red bats and a red circular seal on a pale background.

Desk Album: Flower and Bird Paintings (Bats, rocks, flowers circular calligraphy)

Donkey in a tiger skin brays in a forest clearing while two figures watch from the trees above.

The donkey, in a tiger’s skin, reveals his identity by braying aloud, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Thirty-fi…

Basavana, c. 1560

Miniature painting of a woman addressing a green parrot in a cage on a palace terrace at night, with Persian text above.

The Parrot Addresses Khujasta at the Beginning of the Eleventh Night, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot)

Banavari 2, c. 1560

Album leaf with red bats, blue bamboo, orchids, a pine on rock, gold clouds, and a large red seal at center.

Desk Album: Flower and Bird Paintings (Bats, rocks, flowers oval calligraphy)

Miniature of a monkey biting a chess player's hand in a pavilion while guests watch, with a garden and walled city below.

The wounded monkey bites the hand of the prince, his chessmate, in the presence of guests, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of…

Daswanth, c. 1560

Persian miniature of a seated prince under a canopy, a gesturing courtier, a woman in red and attendants, with Persian text b

The handmaiden again pleads for the death of the prince, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighth Night

Lalu, c. 1560

Two sparrows with red caps face each other on a branch beside a white-blossomed tree and green grass.

Desk Album: Flower and Bird Paintings (Gossiping Sparrows)

Three women on a rooftop terrace by domed pavilions; one in orange crouches while another in green leans over her, with Persi

The deceitful wife ejects the procuress after blackening her face, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighth Night

Shravana, c. 1560

Persian miniature of three men kneeling in a cave praying beneath a huge boulder, surrounded by colorful rock formations.

The tale of the three men trapped in a cave by a rolling boulder, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Thirty-second…

Bihzad, c. 1560

Miniature of a red-robed man offering a green parrot to a seated figure under a pavilion, with Persian text above.

The monk returns the magic parrot to its rightful owner, the merchant, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Tenth Night

Lalu, c. 1560

Miniature of a seated king under a canopy listening to a young prince, with attendants, a woman at a window, and Persian text

The young prince recounts his experiences to his father, the king, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighth Night

Suraju, c. 1560

Manuscript painting of a woman in red reaching toward a green parrot in a cage on a terrace, with Persian text above and belo

The Parrot Addresses Khujasta at the Beginning of the Twelfth Night, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot)

Tara 1, c. 1560