AN INDIAN POTTERY TILE WITH VEGETAL MEANDERS
Delhi Sultanates, Northern India, 15th - 16th century

AN INDIAN POTTERY TILE WITH VEGETAL MEANDERS
Delhi Sultanates, Northern India, 15th - 16th century

Of square shape, painted in cobalt blue and turquoise on a white ground, decorated in reserve with a typical spiralling design with white sinuous split palmette leaves and vegetal sprays on a cobalt blue background, 17.3cm x 17.4cm.

The colour palette and overall design of this square tile is extremely similar to Multan pottery tiles produced in Sindh, Punjab, from the late 18th century onward. And yet, an identical pottery tile exhibited at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London (Room 137, Case Q, Shelf 4) ascribes it to the very early tile production of the Delhi Sultanates, dating back to the 1400 - 1500 period.

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