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  • 4 - Architectural decoration

  • George Michell, Mark Zebrowski
  • Book:
    Architecture and Art of the Deccan Sultanates
    Published online:
    28 March 2008
    Print publication:
    10 June 1999, pp 115-144

  • Summary

    Plaster decoration is at first restricted to bands around arched openings and recesses, and to medallions in the spandrels. The most refined plasterwork of the era is the delicately incised calligraphy and foliation of the mihrab in the Langar-kimosque just north of Gulbarga. With the development of carved stonework in later Adil Shahi architecture, plaster decoration tends to be confined to cartouches and medallions on sinuous brackets. Wooden decoration in Deccani architecture can only be studied from the scantiest remains. Metal cladding still remains on some of the doors in the defensive entryways to Deccan forts, for example the geometric designs in iron strapwork on the inner door of the Fateh gate at Golconda. In Bidar, architectural tilework conforms to the mosaic technique. Wall panels in the Moti Baug at Wai are of greater merit. The paintings are framed by graceful floral borders typical of the Maratha idiom.