A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c19.s4.15

c19.s4.15

The examples of well-designed and well-executed open-work tracery, chiefly in marble, at Agra and Delhi are so numerous that it is difficult to select typical specimens. But it is impossible to do better than to illustrate the style of Akbar's time from the tomb of Salīm Chishtī at Fathpur-Sīkrī, built A.D. 1571. Plate CIV reproduces some of the marble screen-work enclosing the verandah, exhibiting an elegant and effective combination of a geometrical pattern with a conventionalized plant design.