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Colonnade

1630-1640 (made)
Place of origin
Agra (made)

Part of the colonnade fronting the bathhouse in the fort at Agra, comprising 5 marble columns inlaid with coloured hardstones, with separate capitals and bases, 4 lintels, 3 double brackets and 2 single brackets or corbels

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read The arts of the Mughal Empire The great age of Mughal art lasted from about 1580 to 1650 and spanned the reigns of three emperors: Akbar, Jahangir and Shah Jahan. Hindu and Muslim artists and craftsmen from the northern regions of the Indian subcontinent worked with Iranian masters in the masculine environment of the r...

Object details

Categories
Architecture
Sculpture
Islam
Object type
Colonnade
Parts
This object consists of 29 parts.

  • Column
  • Column
  • Column
  • Column
  • Column
  • Plinth
  • Column Base
  • Column Base
  • Column Base
  • Column Base
  • Capital
  • Capital
  • Capital
  • Capital
  • Capital
  • Bracket
  • Bracket
  • Bracket
  • Lintel
  • Lintel
  • Lintel
  • Lintel
  • Bracket
  • Bracket
  • Plinth Fragment
  • Plinth Fragment
  • Plinth Fragment
  • Plinth Fragment
  • Column Base
Materials and techniques
white marble with inlaid coloured hardstones
Brief description
Part of the colonnade fronting the bathhouse in the fort at Agra, white marble inlaid with coloured hardstones, Mughal, c. 1637
Physical description
Part of the colonnade fronting the bathhouse in the fort at Agra, comprising 5 marble columns inlaid with coloured hardstones, with separate capitals and bases, 4 lintels, 3 double brackets and 2 single brackets or corbels
Bibliographic reference
Ebba Koch, Mughal Art and Imperial Ideology. Collected Essays, OUP New Delhi, 2001: 'The Lost Colonnade of Shah Jahan's Bath in the Red Fort of Agra', pp. 255-268.
Collection
South & South East Asia Collection
Accession number
IS.167:1to:22-1886

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Record createdSeptember 20, 2005
Record URL
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