[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Architecture and art](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art) › [A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911) › c16.s2.9 # A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c16.s2.9 A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c16.s2.9 - **Language:** English ### [c16.s2.9](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911.c16.s2.9) 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 - [Previous: c16.s2.8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911.c16.s2.8) - [Next: c16.s2.10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911.c16.s2.10) - [Up: c16.s2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911.c16.s2) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911.c16.s2.9](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911.c16.s2.9) · Pramāṇa