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The students there copied fresco designs on mosque interiors in Lahore, but the elements of figural decoration in this painting suggests it is copied from a wall painting in the Harmandir, popularly known as the Golden Temple, at Amritsar. This is confirmed by an annotation in the hand of Caspar Stanley Clarke, head of the V&A’s Indian Department in the early 20th century:  ‘The Golden Temple, Amritsar’.","physicalDescription":"Drawing of a wall painting; opaque watercolour on paper, the polychrome design has a rectangular outer border of leaves between rules, forming a trompe l'oeil frame. Within this is a blue and white dish on a high foot, supporting grapes and flowers and a bouquet of fantastic flowers above. The dish rests on a mound of interlaced and intertwined pink an yellow bands within which are lion masks, and parrots and peacocks perched on the top and edges. The white background is filled with blossoms on tendrils. 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Patwant Singh, who examined the painting in 1998, says nothing like this is to be seen today in the Golden Temple, suggesting that the painting may be more likely to have been produced in the Mayo School of Art, Lahore, rather than a copy of a fresco painting in the Golden Temple."}],"objectHistory":"Probably one of a group of four designs collected by Caspar Purdon Clarke in Lahore in 1881-1882. It was re-accessioned in 1998.","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Design for a wall painting, opaque watercolour on paper; Lahore, ca. 1880","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"Stronge, S. (Ed.) \"The Arts of the Sikh Kingdoms\", V&A, 1999","id":"AUTH327365"},"details":"cat. 193, p. 236","free":""}],"production":"The identification of Caspar Stanley Clarke's hand was rejected by Patwant Singh in 1998 and the design may have been done at the Lahore School of Art. 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