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The suitors take the devotee’s daughter out of her tomb after breaking it open, when the physician discovers she is still alive, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Twentieth Night

c. 1560
gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper

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The three pairs of birds in the tree and pond allude to the three suitors.

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