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# Tile

This fragment of a square earthenware tile, made in Mughal Hindustan in the mid-17th century, is glazed and decorated in cuerda seca technique, which involves outlining the design on the fired tile with a manganese pigment mixed with a greasy substance to separate the areas to be coloured from each other, and prevent …

- **Kind:** artefact
- **Date:** 1600–1700 CE

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Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/inp.artefact.vam.im-279-1923](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.artefact.vam.im-279-1923) · Pramāṇa
