A PANEL OF MUGHAL CUERDA SECA POTTERY TILES

The green border on these tiles is very similar to that of a tile in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (acc.no.IS.24-1887). The museum inventory records that their example 'was secured from a heap of rubbish during Captn. Cole's restoration of Indian Monumts', and that it came from the tomb of Asaf Khan (d.1641), which was restored by the British Colonial Authorities in the 1920s.

Similar Mughal tiles have been sold at auction. See, for example, a panel of four sold in these Rooms, 27 April 2004, lot 245, or more recently a pair sold 4 November 2010, lot 264.