[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Architecture and art](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art) › [A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911) › c19.s6.28 # A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c19.s6.28 A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c19.s6.28 - **Language:** English ### [c19.s6.28](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911.c19.s6.28) Passing by several interesting buildings exhibiting more or less decoration in coloured tiles, we come next to the tomb near Agra known as the Chīnī-kā-Rauza, which has had the advantage of being exhaustively described and illustrated by the late Mr. E. W. Smith in a volume mainly devoted to it. The building, a large octagonal domed tomb of uncertain date, supposed to have been built early in the reign of Aurangzēb, in memory of Afzal Khān, a poet who died in 1639, was originally covered on the outside from top to bottom with mosaic in \*Kāshī\* tiling of various colours, worked up into numerous patterns so as to form one unbroken flat surface. It is now much dilapidated. The tiles, ⅝ of an inch thick, are bedded in a layer of fine plaster an inch thick, which was laid on a stratum of coarser plaster two inches in thickness. The principal colours include blues, greens, orange, vermilion, lake, &c., in a variety of delicate shades with a metallic lustre, the unavoidable slight irregularities of the surface producing wonderful play of light. One illustration may be given to show the style (Plate CIX).² - [Previous: c19.s6.27](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911.c19.s6.27) - [Next: c19.s6.29](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911.c19.s6.29) - [Up: c19.s6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911.c19.s6) ## Linked texts (1) - [Chini Ka Rauza](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.monument.chini-ka-rauza) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911.c19.s6.28](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911.c19.s6.28) · Pramāṇa