Specialist
Burcu Arslan
Burcu Arslan writes for the Miniature Painting department at Matchless Pieces, covering the history, makers and collecting of miniature painting.
The princess discovers the dead bodies, with heads severed, of her husband and his Brahman friend, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Thirty-fourth Night
October 10, 2026
The vizier’s son receives the magic wooden parrot from the wife of the merchant, who is drunk, and has a replica made by a carpenter, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Tenth Night
October 10, 2026
Royal Elephant Ramkali with a Mahout
October 10, 2026
Khalis repays the prince for his kindness by changing into a snake and sucking the poison from the king’s daughter, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighteenth Night
October 10, 2026
The Parrot Addresses Khujasta at the Beginning of the Twenty-third Night, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot)
October 10, 2026
Devi Shrine
October 10, 2026
Posthumous portrait of Raja Chhatar Singh of Chamba smoking a hookah
October 10, 2026
Maharana Jagat Singh II Hunting
October 10, 2026
The deceitful wife returns to her terrace after caressing her lover, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighth Night
October 10, 2026