Mediaeval Sinhalese Art c15.67

c15.67

∗ Bennett (‘Ceylon and its Capabilities,’ 1843, p. 761) says of low-country carpenters, “The master cabinet makers are generally Portuguese, but the workmen Singhalese;—these make very durable and beautiful cabinet furniture of every description, but they complain greatly of English tools, as being very badly adapted to the hardness of ebony and satin-wood timber.”