A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c19.s3.3

c19.s3.3

Musalman figure sculpture in the round has, as we have seen, slight artistic value and is interesting chiefly as a curiosity. But Musalman decorative sculpture in bas-relief applied to architecture may fairly claim on its merits to take at least equal rank with first-rate Italian work of the kind.