A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c19.s6.17
A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c19.s6.17
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The palace of Rāja Mān Singh at Gwālīor, built at the beginning of the sixteenth century, 'was once profusely decorated with glazed tiles of various colours,' as noticed by Bābar, who recorded in his *Memoirs*: 'The outside of the walls they have inlaid with green painted tiles. All around they have inlaid the walls with figures of plantain trees made of painted tiles.' Cunningham, writing in 1871, states that