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

Tile

ca. 1640-50 (made)
Place of origin

This is one of a group of 63 tiles all said to have come from the tomb of Madani near But Kadal in Srinagar, Kashmir. The building is of mid-fifteenth-century date, but a gateway with glazed tile decoration was added during the reign of Shah Jahan (r. 1628-58).


Object details

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Object type
Materials and techniques
Earthenware with a white slip ground painted with cuerda seca decoration
Brief description
Architectural tile, part of a yellow and orange vase of flowers on green ground, earthenware with cuerda seca decoration, Mughal, probably Panjab, ca. 1650.
Physical description
Part of a tile panel with a floral design that flows over the individual tiles. This tile has a green ground and shows part of a yellow and orange vase containing a variety of flowers including white roses shaded in grey, a grey iris with touches of blue and other stylised orange and white and blue, grey and white flowers all with yellow stems and leaves.
Dimensions
  • Height: 17.2cm
  • Width: 18.5cm
  • Depth: 3cm
Styles
Object history
This is one of a group of 63 tiles 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. He said that his tiles were 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.
Subjects depicted
Summary
This is one of a group of 63 tiles all said to have come from the tomb of Madani near But Kadal in Srinagar, Kashmir. The building is of mid-fifteenth-century date, but a gateway with glazed tile decoration was added during the reign of Shah Jahan (r. 1628-58).
Collection
Accession number
IM.273-1923

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Record createdJune 25, 2009
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