A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c19.s5.5
A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c19.s5.5
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The earliest Indian example of true *pietra dura*, according to Major Cole, is said to be that in the *Gol Mandal*, a domed pavilion in the small Jagmandir palace, at Udaipur in Rājputāna, built in or about 1623 for Prince Khurram, afterwards the Emperor Shahjahān, while he was an exile from his father's court.