A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c16.s8.7
A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c16.s8.7
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The subject not being of sufficient importance to require exhaustive treatment in this work, my illustrations will be restricted to two excellent examples produced about 1830 by Gobind Ratan of Nayagarh in Orissa. The tortoise (Plate LXXXIII, Fig. A) is described by Sir George Watt as 'a wonderful creation', which raises the artist who produced it to a position of 'equality with the ivory carvers of Europe, Japan, or China'. The statuette of Krishna (Plate LXXXIII, Fig. B) is characterized by the same expert critic as an 'exquisite piece of work'.