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Glazed tile

Tile
late 15th century - early 16th century (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Glazed tile with raised floral arabesque in blue on a white enamelled background.


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleGlazed tile (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Glazed terracotta
Brief description
Raised floral arabesque in blue on a white enamelled background.; Architecture, ceramic, enamelled, Gaur Bengal
Physical description
Glazed tile with raised floral arabesque in blue on a white enamelled background.
Dimensions
  • Height: 17.8cm
  • Width: 12.6cm
  • Depth: 4cm
Style
Object history
From the ruins of city of Gaur

Historical significance: Example of glazed terracotta tile from the Sultanate Bengal period.
Production
A part of a cask containing tiles, bricks etc nearly all in fragments. Most likely the tile was originally used inside the Gaur Palace.
Subject depicted
Bibliographic references
  • Mitra, Pratip Kumar, Source Material on the Medieval Cities of Gaur and Pandua (West Bengal, India) in the British Public Collections, Archaeology of Eastern India: New Perspectives, Centre for Archaeological Studies and Training Eastern India, Kolkata 2002, pp279-330, fig.19 (p.328).
  • 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
9363:32/(IS)

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Record createdAugust 29, 2003
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