tile
Tile
ca. 1650 (made)
ca. 1650 (made)
| Artist/Maker | |
| Place of origin |
This tile is one of a group acquired in 1923 from Mr. Frederick H. Andrews in 1923. 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 returning that year to the UK. All were acquired in Kashmir and were said to have come from the tomb of Madani near But Kadal in Srinagar, Kashmir. The mid-fifteenth century monument was refurbished by a Mughal nobleman in the reign of Shah Jahan (1628-1658) with tiles from an unknown tile-making centre perhaps in the Mughal province of Panjab.
Object details
| Category | |
| Object type | |
| Title | tile (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | Earthenware with a white slip ground and cuerda seca decoration |
| Brief description | Glazed tile probably made in Panjab, from a Kashmiri monument |
| Physical description | Part of a tile panel of which the design flows over the individual tiles. The earthenware tile is glazed in cuerda seca technique. The ground is lapus-lazuli blue with part of a painted floral design in yellow, green, turquoise and white. |
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| Object history | 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 was refurbished by a Mughal nobleman in the reign of Shah Jahan (1628-1658). |
| Subject depicted | |
| Summary | This tile is one of a group acquired in 1923 from Mr. Frederick H. Andrews in 1923. 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 returning that year to the UK. All were acquired in Kashmir and were said to have come from the tomb of Madani near But Kadal in Srinagar, Kashmir. The mid-fifteenth century monument was refurbished by a Mughal nobleman in the reign of Shah Jahan (1628-1658) with tiles from an unknown tile-making centre perhaps in the Mughal province of Panjab. |
| Bibliographic reference | Susan Stronge, ‘Tile Revetments in the Reign of Shah Jahan’, in Ebba Koch in collaboration with Ali Anooshahr, eds, The Mughal Empire from Jahangir to Shah Jahan. Art, Architecture, Politics, Law and Literature, Marg Publications, Mumbai 2019, pp 220-245. See Plate 21, p. 238. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | IM.253-1923 |
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| Record created | January 22, 2008 |
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