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Tile, Mughal - tile

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  • Object:

    Tile, Mughal

  • Place of origin:

    Panjab, Afghanistan (probably, made)

  • Date:

    ca. 1650 (made)

  • Artist/Maker:

    Unknown (production)

  • Materials and Techniques:

    Earthenware with cuerda seca decoration

  • Museum number:

    IM.251-1923

  • Gallery location:

    Ceramics Study Galleries, Asia & Europe, room 137, case WN

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This Mughal glazed earthenware tile is one of a group acquired in 1923 from Mr Frederick H. Andrews. He had been living in Srinagar as Director of the Technical Institute of Kashmir, and wrote to the museum in 1922 offering to sell his collection before he left that year to return to the UK. The tiles are said to have come from the tomb of Madani near But Kadal in Srinagar, Kashmir. The building dates from the mid-fifteenth century, but was refurbished by a Mughal nobleman in the reign of Shah Jahan (1628-58).

Physical description

This square glazed earthenware tile is part of a decorative panel which has a deep cobalt blue ground overlaid with a fine floral and foliated scroll, over which there is part of a broad yellow arabesque in which there is a trailing floral and foliated stem. This is similar, but not exactly matching, to IM.252-1923.

Place of Origin

Panjab, Afghanistan (probably, made)

Date

ca. 1650 (made)

Artist/maker

Unknown (production)

Materials and Techniques

Earthenware with cuerda seca decoration

Dimensions

Height: 20.6 cm, Width: 19.1 cm, Depth: 2.7 cm

Object history note

This tile is one of a group acquired in 1923 from Mr Frederick H. Andrews. He had been living in Srinagar where he had been Director of the Technical Institute of Kashmir and wrote to the museum in 1922 offering to sell his collection before he left that year to return to the UK. The tiles are said to have come from the tomb of Madani near But Kadal in Srinagar, Kashmir. The building dates from the mid-fifteenth century, but it was refurbished by a Mughal nobleman in Shah Jahan’s time. The tiles were probably made in Lahore.

Descriptive line

glazed earthenware, c. 1650

Materials

Glaze; Earthenware (red); Enamel paint

Techniques

Cuerda seca

Categories

Ceramics

Collection code

SSEA

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