- Title:
- Architectural fragment
- Object name(s):
- Architectural fragment
- Brief description:
- Square tile with high-relief full-blown lotus painted in enamel colours in white, green and yellow on a deep-blue ground.
- 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/2020MT9491/full/!100,100/0/default.jpg
- Location type:
- Thumbnail
- Dimension:
- Length
- Dimension measurement unit:
- in
- Dimension value:
- 7 5/8
- Dimension:
- Width
- Dimension measurement unit:
- in
- Dimension value:
- 7 5/8
- Dimension:
- Thickness
- Dimension measurement unit:
- in
- Dimension value:
- 1 5/8
- Material:
- Terracotta
- Object history note:
- Lent by the Royal Asiatic Society of London to the India Museum. Transferred from the India Museum to South Kensington Museum in November 1879. Renumbered in 1924.
- Object name:
- Architectural fragment
- Object number:
- IM.565:9-1924
- 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 eleven terracotta bricks, with ornament modelled and cut by hand mainly in full-relief.
- Object production person:
- Unknown
- Object production place:
- Gaur
- Place association:
- made
- Other number:
- 09232(IS)
- Other number type:
- India Museum Catalogue (IS) Number
- Other number:
- 12,636
- Other number type:
- India Museum Slip Book
- Physical description:
- Square tile with high-relief full-blown lotus painted in enamel colours in white, green and yellow on a deep-blue ground.
- Reproduction number:
- 2020MT9491
- 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 details:
- p.32
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Use licence for this record: CC BY-NC
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