Near View of Dais

The throne pavilion, eighty feet high, and decorated in gold, red, blue, and white, was not universally admired. The artist Val Prinsep commented, ‘The Viceroy’s dais is a kind of scarlet temple 80 feet high. Never was there such Brummagem ornament, or more atrocious taste …. They have stuck pieces of needlework into stone panels and tin shields and battle axes all over the place.  The size … gives it a vast appearance like a gigantic circus, and the decorations are in keeping.’