Cleveland Museum of Art
The merchant’s daughter gives birth to a son as a result of eating out of the box. The clever child recognizes the false gems from true, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Twenty-third Night
c. 1560
The child is named Ibn al-Ghaib meaning, “the son of an invisible man.”
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