A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c13.s6.35

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The remarkable richness of Ceylon in art-works of metal, chiefly bronze, was not realized until recent discoveries compelled attention to the fact. Before 1905 a few objects of interest had been collected by the casual exertions of individuals, but since that date the numerous additions to the public collections have been acquired by the systematic operations of the Archaeological Survey. Few, if any, of the castings are earlier than the tenth century, and most of them are assignable to the eleventh or twelfth, or even the early part of the thirteenth century.