tile
Tile
ca. 1640 (made)
ca. 1640 (made)
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| Place of origin |
This tile is one of a group acquired in 1923 from Mr Frederick H. Andrews (former principal of the Mayo School of Art, Curator of the Lahore Museum and, later, director of the Technical Institute of Kashmir at Srinagar). He had been living in Srinagar and wrote to the museum in 1922 offering to sell his collection before he left that year to return to the UK. All were acquired in Kashmir. The tiles were stated to have come from the tomb of Madani near But Kadal in Srinagar, Kashmir. The 15th century tomb was refurbished during the reign of Shah Jahan and the tiles, in a variety of styles, were presumably made in Kashmir.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Title | tile (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | Earthenware with a white slip ground, glazed in cuerda seca technique |
| Brief description | Glazed earthenware tile, probably Kashmir, c. 1640 |
| Physical description | Part of a tile revetment with a design that would have covered several tiles.This tile has a lapus-lazuli blue ground with painted decoration in lemon-yellow, turquoise and white of flowers on curving stems. The turquoise breast of a bird with yellow wings and its black leg are on one side. The design is outlined in black lines and painted in enamel colours over a white slip. |
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| Object history | This tile is one of a group acquired in 1923 from Mr Frederick H. Andrews (former principal of the Mayo School of Art and Curator of the Museum also at Lahore as well as later the director of the Technical Institute of Kashmir at Srinagar). He had been living in Srinagar and wrote to the museum in 1922 offering to sell his collection before he left that year to return to the UK. All were acquired in Kashmir. The tiles are said to have come from the tomb of Madani near But Kadal in Srinagar, Kashmir. They probably were made in Kashmir. |
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| Summary | This tile is one of a group acquired in 1923 from Mr Frederick H. Andrews (former principal of the Mayo School of Art, Curator of the Lahore Museum and, later, director of the Technical Institute of Kashmir at Srinagar). He had been living in Srinagar and wrote to the museum in 1922 offering to sell his collection before he left that year to return to the UK. All were acquired in Kashmir. The tiles were stated to have come from the tomb of Madani near But Kadal in Srinagar, Kashmir. The 15th century tomb was refurbished during the reign of Shah Jahan and the tiles, in a variety of styles, were presumably made in Kashmir. |
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| Collection | |
| Accession number | IM.250-1923 |
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| Record created | January 22, 2008 |
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