A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c19.s6.21

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We now pass on to the more highly developed and artistic use of glazed tiles after the Persian manner on the walls and domes of Mughal buildings. Most of the Mughal tiling is of the kind called *Kāshī* or *Chīnī*, composed of pieces cut out from a painted sheet and laid as mosaic. The larger part dates from the seventeenth century, with a range of colours considerably more extensive than that employed on the early Panjāb tiles already noticed.³ Such *Kāshī* tile casing, sparingly employed on the tombs of Shēr Shah and Humāyūn, came largely into favour in the reigns of Jahāngīr and Shahjahān (1605–58), and continued to be used in Aurangzēb's time. The art is now extinct.