tile
Tile
ca. 1650 (made)
ca. 1650 (made)
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| Place of origin |
This glazed earthenware tile is one of a group of mid-17th century Mughal tiles 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 Shah Jahan’s reign (1628-1658). The tiles were possibly made in Lahore.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Title | tile (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | Earthenware with slip coating and cuerda seca decoration |
| Brief description | Glazed earthenware tile, Mughal, c. 1650 |
| Physical description | Rectangular earthenware tile with a yellow ground decorated with part of a design of flowering plants in a baluster-shaped vase, painted in cuerda seca technique. Half of the orange vase, which has grey arabesque decoration highlighted in white, is on the left hand side while on the other side a spray of flowers includes two-toned grey roses with blue leaves, orange tulips and stems with blue buds, and other orange and grey flowers also with green stems and leaves. |
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| Object history | This tile is one of a group of 63 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 it was refurbished by a Mughal nobleman in Shah Jahan’s time. The tiles probably were made in Lahore. |
| Production | India |
| Subjects depicted | |
| Summary | This glazed earthenware tile is one of a group of mid-17th century Mughal tiles 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 Shah Jahan’s reign (1628-1658). The tiles were possibly made in Lahore. |
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| Bibliographic reference | Swallow, D., Stronge, S., Crill, R., Koezuka, T., editor and translator, "The Art of the Indian Courts. Miniature Painting and Decorative Arts", Victoria & Albert Museum and NHK Kinki Media Plan, 1993.
p. 74 cat. no. 58.1
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 17, p. 234. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | IM.246-1923 |
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| Record created | December 15, 1999 |
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