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Tile
- Place of origin:
Gaur (made)
- Date:
late 15th century - early 16th century (made)
- Materials and Techniques:
Glazed earthenware
- Museum number:
9364:3/(IS)
- Gallery location:
South Asia, Room 41, case J
Physical description
Arch-shaped tile, decorated with stylized flower, in orange and green, drawn with a white outline, within a white border, on a blue ground.
Place of Origin
Gaur (made)
Date
late 15th century - early 16th century (made)
Materials and Techniques
Glazed earthenware
Descriptive line
Tile; Gaur, Bangladesh, late 15th - early 16th century
Labels and date
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]
Categories
Ph_survey; India Museum
Collection
South & South East Asia Collection
