[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) › c17.55 # A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c17.55 A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c17.55 - **Language:** English ### [c17.55](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911.c17.55) In certain cases, however, Indian sculptors chose to treat the vine motive after the European or West Asiatic manner.³ The best example of such treatment is the well-known frieze from the Upper Monastery at Nathu, Yūsufzai, which is almost a replica of a similar work at Palmyra, executed in the third century after Christ (Wood, \*Palmyra\*, Plate 41). The design (Plate LXXXIX, Fig. A) consists of a vine stem knotted into five circles forming small panels; the first of which, to the left, contains leaves only; the second is occupied by a boy or 'genius' plucking grapes; the third exhibits a boy playing with a goat; the fourth displays a crudely-executed goat nibbling the vine; and the fifth represents another boy plucking grapes. Fig. B in the same plate reproduces a Mathurā sculpture treating the vine after the Indian manner, and admirably executed. - [Previous: c17.54](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911.c17.54) - [Next: c17.56](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911.c17.56) - [Up: c17](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911.c17) ## Linked texts (1) - [Nathu](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.site.nathu) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911.c17.55](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911.c17.55) · Pramāṇa