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Lot Essay
Ahmedabad and its architecture made a profound impression on the artist. He wrote: 'The deeply recessed lower story forming a veranda, and the wooden pillars with elaborately
wrought consols supporting the upper stories or balconies; the whole
facade is often covered with a wealth of carving, painted with tints
which are rather gaudy when new, but which are exquisitely beautiful
when half effaced and weather-worn... The doors of these housed,
although massive and heavy, both in appearance and actual weight, are
often exceedingly interesting and of great artistic beauty' (Weeks, op. cit., p. 330).
wrought consols supporting the upper stories or balconies; the whole
facade is often covered with a wealth of carving, painted with tints
which are rather gaudy when new, but which are exquisitely beautiful
when half effaced and weather-worn... The doors of these housed,
although massive and heavy, both in appearance and actual weight, are
often exceedingly interesting and of great artistic beauty' (Weeks, op. cit., p. 330).