Tile
Tile
Late 15th century - early 16th century (made)
Late 15th century - early 16th century (made)
| Artist/Maker | |
| Place of origin |
Tile, forming part of a horizontal border, in white on dark blue ground.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Title | Tile (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | Glazed eathenware |
| Brief description | Tile; Gaur, Bangladesh, late 15th-early 16th centuries |
| Physical description | Tile, forming part of a horizontal border, in white on dark blue ground. |
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| Style | |
| Gallery label | GLAZED TILES
From Gaur, Bengal
Late 15th-early 16th century
Pre-Mughal Islamic building in Bengal often use glazed and unglazed tiles as a decorative feature. The earliest dated appearance of glazed tiles at Gaur is on the Eklakhi tomb, generally accepted as the mausoleum of Sultan Jalal al-Din (d.1431). By the late 15th century the use of tiles had become more widespread, although in Bengal still confined to Muslim buildings.
9364:3
9363:50
9363:56
9363:42
9363:6
9363:31(ca.1997) |
| Object history | From ruins of Gaur |
| Subject depicted | |
| Bibliographic reference | Arts of Bengal : the heritage of Bangladesh and eastern India : an exhibition organized by the Whitechapel Art Gallery in collaboration with the Victoria and Albert Museum : 9 November-30 December 1979, Whitechapel Art Gallery ..., 12 January-17 February 1980, Manchester City Art Gallery ... . [London]: Whitechapel Art Gallery, [1979] Number: 085488047X (pbk.) :
p.32 |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | 9363:6/(IS) |
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| Record created | May 17, 2000 |
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