Carved stone window in Sidi Sayyid's Mosque, Ahmadabad
0000; Gale Group; Linguagem: English
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Close view of the second of the pierced stone windows in the rear elevation of the mosque, carved in elaborate vegetable forms. India Museum no. 1468. Received from Captain Lyon 7 February 1871. Duplicate print at Photo 1001 (3225). Lyon supplies the following description in his 'Notes to accompany a series of photographs designed to illustrate the ancient architecture of Western India. Taken for Government and described by Captain Lyon' (Geneva, 1871): 576 and 577. - Close to the Gaol shown in No. 575 is the citadel itself. It is surrounded by a high wall and the great entrance is composed of three lofty arches, immediately on entering the enclosure, on turning sharp to the right and following the wall, the two carved windows as here represented will be seen. Their dimensions are ten feet by seven and they belong to a desecrated mosque built by Sudee Syeed and now used as a Court House. When the wonderful manner in which the slabs of stone have been pierced and fashioned into trees and palms, the pattern being so evenly and beautifully spread over the whole surface, it must be at once confessed that nothing yet described or represented quite comes up to this most lovely tracery. There are some exquisite specimens of open carvings at Agra and Delhi, but none equal to this. Photographer: Lyon, Edmund David.
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