Page:The Industrial Arts of India.djvu/69

 floriated scrolls, elephants, tigers, deer, peacocks, doves, and parrots are the shapes most conspicuously represented. After the enamel has hardened the gold work is etched over with a graver so as to bring out the characteristic details of the ornamentation. In some cases it would seem as if the surface of the enamel was first engraved, and then the gold rubbed into the pattern so produced, in the form of an amalgam, and fixed by fire. Plate 39 gives illustrations of a casket, and its panels, of this Perlabghar work, lent by the Queen. The enamels of Ratam in Central India are identical in general character with those of Pertabghar, but are deep blue in colour, not green.

Beautiful glass bangles churis and such like ornaments are made at Rampur [whence they are named Rampurmaniharan ] near Mirut. These glass ornaments, of the most brilliant colours, are also made at Plushyarpur, Multan, Lahore, Patiala, Kama!, Panipat, and other places in the Panjab : at Banda in the North- Western Provinces ; at Dalman and Lucknow in Oudh, where the art was introduced from Multan; and at Mangrul in the Central Provinces. In the Bombay Presidency glass-making has its headquarters at Kapadvanj in the Kaira district of Gujarat. It is made into bangles, beads, bottles, looking- glasses, and the figures of animals, chiefly peacocks, for export to Bombay and Kathiwar. Glass trinkets are also made in the Kheda district: of Kandesh, and at Bagmandli in the Ratnagiri collectorate. In the Madras Presidency glass bangles are ex- tensively made, both at Matod and Tumkur in Mysore : and in several villages between Guti and Bellary in the Bellary collectorate. The glass phials for Ganges water, seen all over India, are made chiefly at Nagina, in the Bijnur district of the North-Western Provinces, and at Sawansa, in the Pertabghar district of Oudh. Most of the Ganges water, which myriads of pilgrims yearly convey from sacred Hardwar to all parts of India, is carried in the phials and flasks produced by the manihars of Nagina and Sawansa.