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Andrews. He had been living in Srinagar as  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 UK. The tiles are said to have come from the tomb of Madani (Sayyid Muhammad al-Madani) near But Kadal in Srinagar, Kashmir. The building dates from the mid-fifteenth century, but a new gateway to the tomb and adjacent mosque was constructed by order of Shah Jahan, probably in about 1640. The gateway was originally covered with glazed tiles. The gateway was already in ruined condition in 1907 when it was surveyed by the Archaeological Survey of India, with relatively few of the tiles in place. ","physicalDescription":"Rectangular earthenware tile, glazed in cuerda seca technique with a section of a larger motif, consisting of flowers in a baluster-shaped vase within a cartouche. Here, the flowers include irises, and are in manganese purple, orange, ivory and turquoise with pale green stems and leaves, on a yellow ground. 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This acquisition information reflects that found in the Museum records (Asia Department registers and/or Central Inventory) as part of a 2023 provenance research project.\r\n\r\nR.P. 23/2764","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Architecture, glazed ceramic, possibly Kashmir, ca. 1640-50","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. 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