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  • 7 - Textiles, metalwork and stone objects

  • George Michell, Mark Zebrowski
  • Book:
    Architecture and Art of the Deccan Sultanates
    Published online:
    28 March 2008
    Print publication:
    10 June 1999, pp 226-245

  • Summary

    Several factors suggest that the best painted cottons were produced on the Bay of Bengal coast of the kingdom of Golconda. The vibrant tone of red most prized in Europe was produced by the root of the chay plant when grown in the calcium-rich soil of the Krishna river delta. Deccani metalwork is more plentiful and better known than that from any other region of India. The Deccan produced marvellously designed daggers and swords, their hilts composed of entwined animal shapes, usually lions, elephants, simurghs and dragons locked in furious combat. The green serpentine marble out of which this object is cut is found on the Deccan plateau. Its local Persian and Urdu name is zahr muhra, or poison stone, following the belief that a vessel of serpentine marble, like one of celadon, will discolour or crack if food containing poison is placed inside.