A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c16.s2.9

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of India, is not yet available for study, and I am unable to offer any other instances of truly Indian gems or seals deserving of notice for their artistic qualities. Mr. Parker has published a remarkable large intaglio seal obtained from the very early Yaṭṭhāla *dāgaba* in Ceylon, which he believes to have been made in India in the third century B. C. The subject is a king seated on a peculiar basket-work chair, with a 'rustic' back of curved rods. The gem (0·8″ × 0·64″) evidently was a royal signet put into the relic chamber in honour of the relics.¹

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