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Image of Gallery in South Kensington
On display at V&A South Kensington
Ceramics, Room 137, The Curtain Foundation Gallery

Tile

Tile
ca. 1640 (made)
Artist/Maker
Unknown
Place of origin
Punjab (made)

Glazed earthenware tile, 3 white flowers in top left corner with yellow and orange stems; part of one blue flower, bottom right corner. Green background at top left, yellow shape with blue border at bottom right.


Object details

Categories
ELISE
Ceramics
Earthenware
Object type
Tile
TitleTile (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Earthenware with cuerda seca decoration
Earthenware (Red)
Enamel Paint
Cuerda Seca
Brief description
Glazed earthenware tile, Mughal, ca. 1640
Physical description
Glazed earthenware tile, 3 white flowers in top left corner with yellow and orange stems; part of one blue flower, bottom right corner. Green background at top left, yellow shape with blue border at bottom right.
Dimensions
  • Height: 19.9cm
  • Width: 11.3cm
  • Depth: 2.5cm
Styles
Mughal
Shah Jahan
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 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 probably were made in Lahore.
Subject depicted
Flowers
Associated object
IM.279-1923
Bibliographic references
  • Skelton, Robert, et al, The Indian Heritage. Court life and Arts under Mughal Rule London: The Victoria and Albert Museum, 1982 p.26, no.5
  • 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.58.7
Collection
South & South East Asia Collection
Accession number
IM.278-1923

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Record createdDecember 23, 1999
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