Room 33 | Mughal India 1500-1900 gallery
Discover the paintings and decorative arts of the Mughal period - the most powerful and lasting of the Islamic dynasties in India.
Galleries : 132 objects
Two myna birds
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Description
Two mynas (the Common or Indian Myna, Acridotheres tristis) stand silhouetted against a strong red ground. The Mughal artist captures well the mannerisms and natural inquisitiveness of the species. Often kept as cage birds, mynas were prized in India as elsewhere for their mimicry of the human voice and other sounds.
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › India › north India (place of creation)
- Date
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c. 1620
Mughal Period (1526 - 1858)
- Material and technique
- gouache on paper
- Dimensions
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frame 22.9 x 17.6 x 1.4 cm (height x width x depth)
painting 14.9 x 9.6 cm (height x width)
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Lent by Howard Hodgkin.
- Accession no.
- LI118.68
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Further reading
Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2nd February-22nd April 2012, Visions of Mughal India: The Collection of Howard Hodgkin, Andrew Topsfield, ed. (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2012), no. 13 on p. 48, pp. 18, & 154, illus. p. 49
Past Exhibition
see (1)
Location
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- Returned to lender
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