Download or read book Moghul Colour Decoration of Agra Vol 1 written by Edmund W. Smith and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-06-03 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Moghul Colour Decoration of Agra, Vol. 1: Described and Illustrated Below the building is a crypt the walls of which were at one time coated with glazed tiles. The edifice is built of brick and the whole of the exterior is faced with glazed tiles commonly called china, worked up into numerous patterns. It is from this circumstance that it derives its name chini-ka-rauza, or the tomb (coated) with china. Of its kind the mausoleum is unique, being about the only building in Northern India entirely ornamented exteriorly with enamelled tiles. The greater part of the south facade has fallen disclosing the fact that the half domes over the vestibules in the centre of the facades leading into the cenotaph chamber are constructed, like many of the ancient dome buildings in Egypt and Rome, of large earthen pots embedded in concrete. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Moghul Colour Decoration of Agra Described and Illustrated written by Edmund W. Smith and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 edition. Excerpt: ...for filling up the wall recesses in the KhwabgahatFathpur Sikr i--the small unpretentious apartment in which Akbar was wont to spend most of his time when at his summer capital. Similar designs are met with in Chinese work, and it is.not impossible that some of the workmen employed on the decoration of the h i n i-k a-R a u z a came from China or Japan, or more probably the designs travelled from China into Persia and from thence to India. The pattern is composed entirely of straight bars placed at right angles to each other so as to form a number of square and oblong spaces which are alternately filled in with white and red tiles, the divisional bars being in blue. Up the centre of the panel is a bar corresponding with the meeting rail of a casement window and its face is ornamented with V shaped tiles laid alternately in green and yellow courses. Surrounding the lattice is a field of green tiles, inlaid with conventionally treated flowers in various bright colours. The field is edged with very narrow blue tiles, worked into the shape of an arch over the top of the lattice. Enclosing this again is a rectangular frame in very narrow blue tiles, and the spandril pieces between it and the arch are laid with dark gamboge tiles set in which are delicate floral scrolls, the colours harmonizing with the flowers surrounding the lattice within. Plate XXIX shows the panels marked E on the north elevation, below and over the blind window just described. The designs of the flowers are more realistic than many of the others. The pattern upon the upper of the two panels may be intended for a lily, whilst that upon the lower was probably meant to represent a passion flower, It should be mentioned that in this...
Download or read book Moghul Colour Decoration of Agra written by Anonymous and published by Rarebooksclub.com. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 edition. Excerpt: ...amongst the Orientals, which we should study to imitate, if not copy. It is not for Europeans to establish schools of art, in a country the productions of whose remote districts are a school of art in themselves, far more capable of teaching than of being taught.' "It is a rare pleasure to the eye to see in the polished corner of a native room one of these large turquoise blue sweetmeat jars on a fine Kirman rug of minium red ground, splashed with dark blue and yellow. But the sight of wonder is, when travelling over the plains of Persia or-India, suddenly to come upon an encaustic-tiled mosque. It is coloured all over in yellow, green, blue, and other hues; and as a distant view of it is caught at sunrise, its stately domes and glittering minarets seem made of the purest gold, like glass, enamelled in azure and green, a fairy-like apparition of inexpressible grace and the most enchanting splendor. "In giving the following receipts of the different preparations used in enamelling Sindh and Panjab pottery, it is as well to say that they are of little practical value out of those countries. It will be noted that a great deal is thought, by the native manufacturers, to depend on the particular wood, or other fuel used, in the baking, which, if it really influences the result, makes all attempts at imitating local varieties of Indian pottery futile. "In the glazing and colouring two preparations are of essential importance, namely kaneh, literally glass, and sikka, oxides of lead. In the Panjab the two kinds of kanch used are distinguished as Angrezi kanchi, 'English glaze, ' and desi-kanchi, 'country glaze.' " The ornamental designs are either painted on off-hand, or a pattern is pricked out on paper, which is laid on the...
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