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" ... gold and silver earrings, and round tires like the moon, bracelets and tablets and nose-rings, and tinkling ornaments for the feet, taking his designs from the fruits and flowers around him, or from the traditional forms represented in the paintings... "
The Indian Craftsman - Page 102
by Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy - 1909 - 130 pages
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Paris universal exhibition of 1878. Handbook to the British Indian section ...

sir George Christopher M. Birdwood - 1878 - 208 pages
...paintings and carvings of the grent temple, which rises over the grove of mnngoes and pnlms at tho cud of the street above the lotuscovered village tank. At half-past three or four in the afternoon, tho whole street is lighted up by the moving robes of the women going down to draw water from the tank,...
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The Artist, Volume 1

Art - 1880 - 400 pages
...the feet, taking his designs from the fruits and flowers around him, or from the traditional forms represented in the paintings and carvings of the great...the street above the lotus-covered village tank. At half -past three or four in the afternoon the whole street is lighted up by the moving robes of the...
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Catalogue of Objects Loaned by Mr. John W. Bookwalter to the Cincinnati ...

Art, Asian - 1893 - 104 pages
...the feet, taking his designs from the fruits and flowers around him, or from the traditional forms represented in the paintings and carvings of the great...end of the street above the lotus-covered village tank."f •Owen Jones, " Grammar of Ornament." tThe Industrial Arts of India ("South Kensington Museum...
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India and Its Problems

William Samuel Lilly - Ethnology - 1902 - 354 pages
...the feet, taking his designs from the fruits and flowers around him, or from the traditional forms represented in the paintings and carvings of the great temple, which rises over the groves of mangoes and palms at the end of the street above the lotus-covered village tank. At half-past...
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The Indian Craftsman

Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy - Artisans - 1909 - 160 pages
...and moral evils of the introduction of machinery into India are likely to be still greater. MACHINERY At present the industries of India are carried on...of the street above the lotuscovered village tank. AND HANDICRAFT. " At half -past three or four in the afternoon the whole street is lighted up by the...
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In Memoriam. Adolphus William Ward, Master of Peterhouse (1900-1924).

Peterhouse (University of Cambridge) - Scholars - 1924 - 222 pages
...the feet ; his designs he takes from the fruits and flowers around him, or from the traditional forms represented in the paintings and carvings of the great...temple, which rises over the grove of mangoes and palms above the lotus-covered village tank. Between three and four in the afternoon the street is lighted...
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