- Title:
- Glazed tile
- Object name(s):
- Tile
- Brief description:
- Glazed tile with raised floral arabesque in blue on a white enamelled background.
- Collection:
- Victoria and Albert Museum
- Associated concept:
- Ceramics
- Associated concept:
- Tiles
- Associated concept:
- Architecture
- Associated concept:
- India Museum
- Content - concept:
- Islamic
- Current reproduction location:
- https://framemark.vam.ac.uk/collections/2010EA0680/full/!100,100/0/default.jpg
- Location type:
- Thumbnail
- Dimension:
- Height
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 17.8
- Dimension:
- Width
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 12.6
- Dimension:
- Depth
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 4
- Material:
- Terracotta
- Object history note:
- From the ruins of city of Gaur Historical significance: Example of glazed terracotta tile from the Sultanate Bengal period.
- Object name:
- Tile
- Object number:
- 9363:32/(IS)
- Object production date:
- late 15th century - early 16th century
- Date - association:
- made
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1450-01-01
- Date - latest:
- 1550-12-31
- Object production note:
- A part of a cask containing tiles, bricks etc nearly all in fragments. Most likely the tile was originally used inside the Gaur Palace.
- Object production person:
- Unknown
- Object production place:
- Gaur (West Bengal)
- Place association:
- made
- Physical description:
- Glazed tile with raised floral arabesque in blue on a white enamelled background.
- Reproduction number:
- 2010EA0680
- Reproduction number:
- 2020MT9461
- Responsible department/section:
- SSEA
- Style:
- Sultanate Bengal
- Technique:
- Glazed
- Technique:
- Glazed terracotta
- Text reason:
- Collections online record
- User's reference:
- Reference:
- 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.) :
- User's reference:
- Reference:
- 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).
- User's reference:
- Reference details:
- p.32
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Use licence for this record: CC BY-NC
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