. Enamels . rope, as well as of India, a Turanianorigin, that is, coming from Scythia, a province ofCentral Asia. He describes the earliest knownexample of Indian enamel work, the crutch staffof Man Singh, Maharajah of Jeypore, in Raj-pootana, upon which he leaned when before hissovereign, being one of the chiefs of the Court ofAkbar at the end of the sixteenth century, andhimself coming from the northern chief introduced various arts of the northinto Jeypore, and from Lahore he also broughtfive Sikh enamellers or minakari, and to this daythe principal enamellers of Jeypore are
. Enamels . rope, as well as of India, a Turanianorigin, that is, coming from Scythia, a province ofCentral Asia. He describes the earliest knownexample of Indian enamel work, the crutch staffof Man Singh, Maharajah of Jeypore, in Raj-pootana, upon which he leaned when before hissovereign, being one of the chiefs of the Court ofAkbar at the end of the sixteenth century, andhimself coming from the northern chief introduced various arts of the northinto Jeypore, and from Lahore he also broughtfive Sikh enamellers or minakari, and to this daythe principal enamellers of Jeypore are the linealdescendants of these. Dr. Hendley insists thatthe character of the early Jeypore enamels isTuranian, and not Persian. Speaking of thestaff, he says : We must also remember that theowner of this most venerable piece of enamel wasone of the pillars of a true Turanian sovereign, amost munificent patron of the arts, alike of hisnew home in India and of his ancestral dominionsin Central Asia. PLATE XXVI. NECKLACE FROM DELHI. ENAMELLED GOLD ILAQUESCONNECTED BY ROIES OF IEAKLS ORIENTAL ENAMELS 149 The Indian enamels are certainly far superiorto the Persian, and more brilliant and quiteunique in themselves. A visit to the IndianGallery at South Kensington will give the studentsome idea of this beautiful work, which is con-sidered by some the finest enamelling in theworld, and which is well worth the careful con-sideration of any who wish to become eitherexpert in or familiar with the art of brilliant in contrasting colours as onlythose of the East may be, in translucent reds, blues,greens, and dead white overlaid in work of mas-sive gold, champleve, in regular geometricpatterns, or but rarely with naturalistic forms,set with a profusion of diamonds, emeralds,pink and red rubies of Oriental cut and splen-dour, the especial character of this Indianwork is in its sumptuous richness. The semi-opaque and less definite tone of the jade, whichso frequently accomp
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