![]() Enamel work is perfect in design and finish. Another example of Jaipur enamelling is the little perfume box which has a cone-shaped cover that belonged to Mr. W. Anderson. The box has a representation of Lord Krishna, followed by pretty cows and the fair shepherdesses, wandering through a grove of wide-spreading trees, with birds singing among their branches. Krishna is shown dancing with the shepherdesses, on a green ground of hills and valleys and fields. It was surmounted with a yellow diamond and is in perfect harmony with the green, white, blue, orange colours and scarlet enamels. ![]() Among the arms which are kept in the India Museum there are some exquisite examples of old Jaipur enamelling. The handles of the yaks tails, the peacocks tails, which are symbols of royalty and divinity throughout the East, the magnificent examples of the grandest of the art crafts of India practised almost everywhere in India. It includes places like Lucknow, Varanasi and in Kangra and Cashmere however nowhere such perfection as at Jaipur. Enamel work is believed to be a Turanian art. Among the Prince of Wales' several specimens are there of the charming Cashmere enamels. It has a usual shawl pattern ornamentation tout in gold and is filled in with turquoise blue. Sometimes a dark green colour is intermixed with the blue and is perfectly harmonised by the gold thereby producing an artistic effect. Among the splendid loans contributed by the Queen to the India Museum is a Huka stand, the silver bowl which has flowers painted in green and blue enamel. At Pertabghar in Rajputana brilliant trinkets are made by melting a thick layer of green enamel on a plate of burnished gold and it is covered with thin gold cut while it is still hot. After the enamel has hardened the gold work is imprinted over with a graver in order to bring out the characteristic details of ornamentation Beautiful glass bangles and ornaments are made at Rampur near Meerut. These glass ornaments are also made at Hushyarpur, Patiala, Karnal, Panipat and other places in the Panjab, at Dalman and Lucknow in Oudh. In Bombay Presidency glass-making is done at Kapadvanj in the Kaira district of Gujarat. Glass trinkets are made in the Kheda district of Kandesh and at Bagmandli. In the south, glass bangles are made at Matod and Tumkur in Mysore: and in several villages between Guti and Bellary. The glass phials for Ganges water are made at Nagina, in the Bijnur district of the North-Western Provinces and at Sawansa, in the Pertabghar district of Oudh. |
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