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Pearls of the Parrot of India: The Emperor Akbar's Illustrated Khamsa, 1597–98
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Having accidentally killed a youth, a king offers to make amends to the aggrieved mother by giving her a choice of a basin bearing his own head or one heaped with gold
Leaf from a dispersed manuscript of the Khamsa of Amir Khusrau Dihlavi
Attributed to Miskin
Lahore, present-day Pakistan, Mughal period, 1597–98
Opaque watercolors, ink, and gold on paper; 9 3/4 x 6 1/4 in. (24.8 x 15.9 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Gift of Alexander Smith Cochran, 1913 (13.228.26)
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