The Perfumed Palate: Olfactory Practices of Food Consumption at the Mughal Court

Figures & data

Table

Humor	Natural Element	Properties	Temperament
Humoral Blood	Air	Hot and Moist	Sanguine
Yellow Bile	Fire	Hot and Dry	Choleric/Bilious
Black Bile	Earth	Cold and Dry	Melancholic
Phelgm	Water	Cold and Moist	Phlegmatic

Figure 1. Unknown, Two men with archer’s rings on thumbs, dressed in white muslin clothes, one giving the other a lemon, circa 1560–1580, the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.

Figure 2. Manohar, Sultan Murad and a Consort, circa 1597, Freer Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.

Figure 3. Unknown, Lovers on a terrace with three musicians, circa 1700, Freer Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.

Figure 4. Unknown, a prince with a narcissus, circa 1600–1699, Bodleian Libraries MS. Douce Or.A.1, folio 45b., University of Oxford.

Figure 5. Unknown, Mango-Shaped Flask, circa mid-17th century, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.