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

tile

Border Tile
ca. 1650 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Border tile of rectangular shape with a chipped lower edge. It has a design outlined in dry manganese and is painted with a horizontal band of interweaving scrolling stems, rosettes and halves of two arabesque panels in yellow. Indian-red, white and green on a cobalt-blue ground.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Titletile (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Earthenware with cuerda seca decoration
Brief description
Glazed earthenware, Mughal, ca. 1650
Physical description
Border tile of rectangular shape with a chipped lower edge. It has a design outlined in dry manganese and is painted with a horizontal band of interweaving scrolling stems, rosettes and halves of two arabesque panels in yellow. Indian-red, white and green on a cobalt-blue ground.
Dimensions
  • Approximately height: 20cm
Styles
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.
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.287-1923

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Record createdJune 25, 2009
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