A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c13.15

c13.15

In order to prevent any possible misapprehension, it may be well to add that the contrast between early and mediaeval sculpture discussed in the preceding pages relates to the figure sculpture only. In the more purely decorative elements no such contrast is to be observed, the main difference between the early and the later decorative designs being that the foreign factors gradually diminished in importance. Much of the mediaeval decorative work is supremely good, and can be admired frankly and unreservedly by anybody.