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The monkey, serving as the lion’s chamberlain, converses with the lynx and its mate who have arrived with their cubs to settle in the lion’s domain, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Twenty-ninth Night

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

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The artist has faithfully rendered the distinctive tufts on the ears of all five lynxes.

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