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He had been living in Srinagar and wrote to the museum in 1922 offering to sell his collection before he left that year to return to the UK. All were acquired in Kashmir, and were stated to have come from the 'tomb of Madani' in Srinagar. The tomb is actually that of Sayyid Muhammad Hussain Madani whose mosque, dated 1444, is next to it. The tiles themselves are later, produced in the reign of the emperor Shah Jahan (r. 1628-58), for a ceremonial gateway to the tomb and mosque probably constructed in about 1640. The gateway was originally richly embellished with polychrome tiles. Details of what little remained in the early 20th century were recorded in the Annual Report of the Archaeological Survey of India for 1908-1909. Their photographs show tiles set into the walls that are closely similar to the panel of four tiles in the V&A to which this example belongs.\r\n\r\n","physicalDescription":"Part of a tile panel with a design stretching over the individual tiles. The tile has a green ground with parts of  floral sprays including a spray of white blossoms picked out in manganese purple with yellow centres.  Above there are parts of other flowering sprays with a purple flower on the left and orange flowers with touches of purple and a white outline hanging down from the top","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Unknown","id":"A1848"},"association":{"text":"","id":""},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"Earthenware (red)","id":"x30295"},{"text":"enamel paint","id":"AAT147678"},{"text":"slip (coating), white","id":"x42857"}],"techniques":[{"text":"cuerda seca","id":"AAT53916"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Earthenware coated in white slip and enamel paints in cuerda seca technique","categories":[{"text":"Ceramics","id":"THES48982"},{"text":"Earthenware","id":"THES48964"}],"styles":[{"text":"Mughal","id":"AAT18939"},{"text":"Shah Jahan","id":"AAT18947"}],"collectionCode":{"text":"SSEA","id":"THES48598"},"images":["2010ED3876","2010EC4655"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"SHLN","id":"THES49063"},"free":"","case":"","shelf":"","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"Tile","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"No","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Punjab (India)","id":"x29839"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"ca. 1650","earliest":"1645-01-01","latest":"1654-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"19.7","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"18.5","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Depth","value":"2.5","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[],"objectHistory":"This tile is one of a collection acquired from Mr Frederick H. Andrews in 1923.  He had been living in Srinagar, where he was Director of the Technical Institute of Kashmir, and wrote to the museum in 1922 offering to sell his collection before he left that year to return to the U.K.  The tile is said to be part of the tile decoration on the tomb of Madani near But Kadal in Srinagar, Kashmir.  It was probably made in Lahore.","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Architecture, ceramic, glazed, Mughal, c. 1650","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Susan Stronge, ‘Tile Revetments in the Reign of Shah Jahan’, in Ebba Koch in collaboration with Ali Anooshahr, eds, The Mughal Empire from Jahangir to Shah Jahan. Art, Architecture, Politics, Law and Literature, Marg Publications, Mumbai 2019, pp 220-245. See Plate 18, p. 236."}],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[{"text":"flowers","id":"x35571"}],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[],"partNumbers":["IM.265-1923"],"accessionNumberNum":"265","accessionNumberPrefix":"IM","accessionYear":1923,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2025-11-10","recordCreationDate":"2009-06-25","availableToBook":false}}