tile
Tile
ca. 1650 (made)
ca. 1650 (made)
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| Place of origin |
Square tile with a portion of a large design outlined in dry manganese painted in lemon-yellow, green, cobalt-blue and Indian red, with portions of two-lobed compartments in the left one of which is a tulip on a yellow ground, and in the right one the bottom of a plant with blade-shaped leaves on an Indian-red ground.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Title | tile (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | Earthenware with cuerda seca decoration |
| Brief description | Architecture, ceramic, glazed, Mughal, ca. 1650 |
| Physical description | Square tile with a portion of a large design outlined in dry manganese painted in lemon-yellow, green, cobalt-blue and Indian red, with portions of two-lobed compartments in the left one of which is a tulip on a yellow ground, and in the right one the bottom of a plant with blade-shaped leaves on an Indian-red ground. |
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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 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. |
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| Bibliographic reference | Skelton, Robert, et al, The Indian Heritage. Court life and Arts under Mughal Rule London: The Victoria and Albert Museum, 1982
cat. no. 5 |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | IM.284-1923 |
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| Record created | June 25, 2009 |
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