Revival

Possibly Lahore or Kashmir

19.5 X 19.5 Cm

A tile in the cuerda seca technique with a design of the composite inner looking “Bergamots blossoms on multiple stems accompanied by long blade-like and short serrated leaves, rising from the widening the equal mouth of a vase decorated with an arabesque of split-leaf palmettes.

The central flower resembles a single daffodil superimposed with a small soft-pedalled to the centre while the additional flowers to the upper right and left corners have small serrated flowers like daisies in the centre.

Comparable tiles references at Victoria and Albert Museum in London said to come from the tomb of the saint Shah Madani at But Kadal, Zabidal, near Srinagar in Kashmir. The group in the Victoria and Albert Museum was acquired from Mr Frederick H. Andrews in 1923. He had been living in Srinagar, where he was the 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 United Kingdom.

The Howard Hodgkin Collections
References:
1. See Robert Skelton et al, The Indian Heritage: Court Life and Arts under Mughal Rule, 1982, pp. 26-27, nos. 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10, for a discussion of Mughal tiles in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum.

Comes with a certificate from the Art Loss Register