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The building is of mid-fifteenth-century date, but it was refurbished by a Mughal nobleman in the reign of Shah Jahan (r. 1628-1658). It may have been made in a tile-making centre in the Mughal province of Panjab.","physicalDescription":"The earthenware tile is glazed in cuerda seca technique with three bands of stylised floral and foliate scrolls.  The central and wider band has a blue ground with a yellow foliate scrolls and alternating orange and green stylised buds.  The two outer guard stripes are of an identical design with a yellow ground and a meandering grey tendril from which spring green leaves and alternating stylised blue four-petalled and grey-outlined orange three-petalled flowers. 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