A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c19.s4.4
A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c19.s4.4
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The most beautiful traceries at Ahmadābād are to be seen in ten nearly semicircular windows of Sīdī Sayyad's mosque built about A. D. 1500, which may be fairly described as the most artistic stone lattice-work to be found anywhere in the world. I give two examples—one with geometrical patterns, and the other with the tree motive of Hindu origin, which should be compared with the modern carving in the Mysore Palace (*ante*, p. 236).