A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c19.s5.6
A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c19.s5.6
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The process is very extensively employed on the approximately contemporary mausoleum of Itimād-ud-daula near Agra, erected by his daughter Nūrjahān after her father's death in a. d. 1621. The general effect of the *pietra dura* decoration is well shown (so far as it can be without colour) in Plate CVI, which represents one of the white marble turrets at the corners of the tomb. The older style of marble mosaic is seen in the lower panels.