A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c16.s5.10

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The central design represents a man drinking, waited on by a woman, who offers him a goblet with her left and a wreath with her right hand. The man wears no clothing except buskins with turned-up toes and a waistcloth, dropped so as to expose his person. He is squatted on the ground drinking from a horn (*rhyton*) held in his right hand, while his left hand grasps the neck of a full skin of wine resting against his left thigh. He has a moustache and bushy hair, and is crowned with vine-leaves and grapes. Even his ear-rings are grapes, while he and his attendant are encircled by a thick-stemmed vine loaded with fruit. His ornaments are armlets and a torque.¹