Bharot's House, Patan, showing elaborate wood carving on upper storey. Photographer: Cousens, Henry
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Genre: Architectural Photography Reproduced in collotype in Burgess, 'Archaeological Survey of Western India', IX, plate 22, where it is described (p. 52) as one of the houses of 'the late Bharot Kahanji Umadsinghji in Khada Khotadi's Mahalla'. Head-on view of the façade of the haveli. An almos...
Carved wooden balcony window, Siddhapur. Photographer: Cousens, Henry
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Genre: Architectural Photography With richly carved corbelling and details. Architectural drawings of the front and side elevations are reproduced in Burgess, 'Archaeological Survey of Western India', IX, plate 46. 'Gujarat, as already remarked, is full of examples of artistic wood-carving appl...
Façade of private house with carved wooden balcony, Srigonda. Photographer: Cousens, Henry
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Genre: Architectural Photography Henry Cousens, 'Revised list of antiquarian remains in the Bombay Presidency ... originally compiled by J. Burgess' (Bombay, 1897), p. 34: 'Some very good wood-carving decorates the façades of two houses at Srigonda, of the style, though not so old, that is foun...