A large sandstone jali screen
India
17th c.; Shah Jahan period
stone; Red Mathura sandstone with white inclusions
124.5 x 102 x 7cm (49 x 40 x 2.75 inches)
A large red sandstone jali panel, having a trellis design of ogival cartouches each containing a flowering plant with three blossoms; the trellis is surmounted by a cusped arch with plants in the spandrels.
124.5 x 102 x 7cm
India, Agra, Shah Jahan period (circa 1630-1640)
This is one of a small group of Shah Jahan period jali screens, originally from a building near Agra which were taken from Agra to Bharatpur in the 1760's by the Jats. Other panels from this group are in the Khalili Collection, the S.C.Welch Collection, and private collections in London and New York. For two other panels from the group exhibited in Amsterdam and St Petersburg, see Piotrovsky 1999, no. 103 &104.
Piotrovsky 1999
Earthly Beauty, Heavenly Art. Art of Islam. Ed M. Piotrovsky. 1999
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