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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

Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/c760daaf-aa9c-38c6-90ac-48b82161ddb8

Use licence for this record: CC BY-NC

Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/c760daaf-aa9c-38c6-90ac-48b82161ddb8, Victoria and Albert Museum, CC BY-NC

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