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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

Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/45271ede-1934-39e3-b86a-e8a77cd1f1df

Use licence for this record: CC BY-NC

Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/45271ede-1934-39e3-b86a-e8a77cd1f1df, Victoria and Albert Museum, CC BY-NC

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