India - Uttar Pradesh - Agra - Chini Ka Rauzah - Glazed Tile Work - 6
The most important feature of this building is the glazed tile work with which its whole exterior is covered and which has given it its present name. The flat mural surfaces is panelled, and stylized floral designs with borders are depicted upon them in a wide variety of colours and shades as blue, yellow, green orange and white. This is mosaic of glazed tiles. The patterns are made up of thousands of tiny pieces of tiles skillfully embedded into the plaster in the tessellated style. Each flower or leaf being presented by a separate tile. The brick surface was first overlaid with a two inch thick coat of plaster, upon which a finer coating of one inch thickness was done. The design was traced upon this upper plaster when in a plasic state, after which tiles 5/8th of an inch thickness were bedded into it, according to the design. Kashan in Persia was the home of this art, the tiles were therefore called ´Kashi´. Halla in Sindh soon became the centre of glazed-ware in India. The potters were known as ´kashigar´ and the art itself became famous as ´kashikari´. The technique of its preparation remained the same. It consisted of three parts: plaster called ´khamir´, glass called ´kanch´ and ásthar´, put between them. It was a very complicated process in which various chemicals, sand stones and other ingredients were used, through an elaborate system of heating and fusing in specially built kilns. This ensured the glazed-tiles and their lustre to last for a thousand years. This is also why this art has died out.
India - Uttar Pradesh - Agra - Chini Ka Rauzah - Glazed Tile Work - 6
The most important feature of this building is the glazed tile work with which its whole exterior is covered and which has given it its present name. The flat mural surfaces is panelled, and stylized floral designs with borders are depicted upon them in a wide variety of colours and shades as blue, yellow, green orange and white. This is mosaic of glazed tiles. The patterns are made up of thousands of tiny pieces of tiles skillfully embedded into the plaster in the tessellated style. Each flower or leaf being presented by a separate tile. The brick surface was first overlaid with a two inch thick coat of plaster, upon which a finer coating of one inch thickness was done. The design was traced upon this upper plaster when in a plasic state, after which tiles 5/8th of an inch thickness were bedded into it, according to the design. Kashan in Persia was the home of this art, the tiles were therefore called ´Kashi´. Halla in Sindh soon became the centre of glazed-ware in India. The potters were known as ´kashigar´ and the art itself became famous as ´kashikari´. The technique of its preparation remained the same. It consisted of three parts: plaster called ´khamir´, glass called ´kanch´ and ásthar´, put between them. It was a very complicated process in which various chemicals, sand stones and other ingredients were used, through an elaborate system of heating and fusing in specially built kilns. This ensured the glazed-tiles and their lustre to last for a thousand years. This is also why this art has died out.