Jaipur column
New Delhi, India
The Jaipur Column, funded in 1912 by the Maharaja of Jaipur, is a 148‑foot cream stone monument on a red‑and‑cream double pedestal, topped by a stone egg, bronze lotus and glass star, with sculpted panels by Giudicci after C. S. Jagger, and later used by Lutyens as his Royal Academy Diploma work.
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Description
The cost of a column to commemorate the Coronation Durbar and the transfer of the capital was offered by the Maharajah of Jaipur in 1912. The cream stone column, on its double pedestal of red and cream, supports a stone egg, from which flowers a bronze lotus and above this floats a six-pointed glass star, 148 feet above the ground. This is supported on a steel tube which runs through the column from its concrete base. The (unfinished) panels on the pedestal were carved by Giudicci from models by C. S. Jagger.
The Jaipur Column was the subject of Lutyens’s Diploma work, presented to the Royal Academy when he was elected a full Academician in 1920. (Amery et al, 1981, cat no.427)
Bibliography
Amery, C., Richardson, M. and Stamp, G. (1981) Lutyens, the Work of the English Architect Sir Edwin Lutyens (1869-1944): Hayward Gallery London, 18 November 1981-31 January 1982. London: Arts Council of Great Britain. ,