[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Architecture and art](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art) › [A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911) › c19.s6.14 # A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c19.s6.14 A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c19.s6.14 - **Language:** English ### [c19.s6.14](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911.c19.s6.14) Two of the mosques at Gaur in Bengal (\*ante\*, 400), the Tāntipāra and Lotan (Lattan), erected between A.D. 1475 and 1480, are decorated with true encaustic tiles. Those of the Lotan mosque are the best preserved. A collection of earlier glazed tiles from Gaur in the Victoria and Albert Museum, South Kensington, is described as having 'a marked Hindu character, quite distinct from the blue, and diapered, and banded tiles which are distinctive of Mahommadan manufacture elsewhere in India, before the florid designs of the Mogul period came into vogue.'¹ It is possible that the art, however introduced originally, may have been known to the Hindus of Bengal in an imperfect form before the Muhammadan conquest. - [Previous: c19.s6.13](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911.c19.s6.13) - [Next: c19.s6.15](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911.c19.s6.15) - [Up: c19.s6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911.c19.s6) ## Linked texts (2) - [Tantipara Mosque](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.monument.tantipara-mosque) - [Gauḍa](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.site.gauda) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911.c19.s6.14](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911.c19.s6.14) · Pramāṇa