Border tile — tile, Punjab (India), ca. 1650
Record status
Individual type · partial
Period
ca. 1650
Border tile in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (museum number IM.287-1923), made in Punjab (India), dated ca. 1650. The museum's brief description reads: Glazed earthenware, Mughal, ca.
1650. Museum description: Border tile of rectangular shape with a chipped lower edge. It has a design outlined in dry manganese and is painted with a horizontal band of interweaving scrolling stems, rosettes and halves of two arabesque panels in yellow. Indian-red, white and green on a cobalt-blue ground. The museum records it as Earthenware with cuerda seca decoration, measuring Height 20 cm. These details come from the museum's own record; how far this object represents a wider collectible type has not yet been independently verified.
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Physical characteristics
- Material
- Earthenware (red), enamel paint
- Dimensions
- Height 20 cm
Technical characteristics
- Technique
- Earthenware with cuerda seca decoration
- Place recorded
- Punjab (India)
Identification
- Museum object name
- Border tile
- Museum object number
- IM.287-1923
- Museum system number
- O403548
Catalogue references
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