Architecture, ceramic, glazed, Mughal, ca. 1640-50

Tile with a portion of a large design outlined in dry manganese. It is painted in blue, green, orange and yellow with scrolling floral and leafy stems and a blue defining line of a lobed compartment on yellow and orange grounds. Down the left side is a motif of scrolling stems with green and red rosettes on a cobalt-blue ground.

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 a gateway with tile revetments was added during the reign of Shah Jahan.

This is one of a group of Mughal tiles bought by the museum in 1923. They came from the tomb of Sayyid Muhammad al Madani in Srinagar, Kashmir. The building dates to the mid-fifteenth century, but a gateway ornamented with tile revetments was added during the reign of Shah Jahan. By 1923, most of the tiles had fallen off the gateway.

IM.289-1923