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D tiles, variously coloured and embossed, are met with in the pagodas and other edifices of pegu, burmah, and nepaul: and the mosques, in the ruins of gour, one of the ancient capitals of northern india, are faced with embossed and coloured tile-work (three fragments of which were exhibited—one piece was moncler jacket of a deep blue, another white, and the front edge of the third was moulded into the form of a baluster, and covered with yellow and green glaze. They were from the king's tomb and gateway, and the nuttin musjid—buildings erected in the fifteenth century. These fragments were found in the jungle, near the mosques, by colonel franklin, in 1826). At damascus is an ancient structure, called the ' green mosque', from its minaret being entirely covered with enamelled tiles, of a bright green colour, which present a most splendid appearance when the sun is shining upon them. It is in persia and the older buildings of turkey that we must look for the most tastefully designed tile decorations. Tavernier,vol. Vi. »in his persian travels (p. 22), speaka of a grand mosque at tauris (tabriz) being adorned with embossed and enamelled tiles: some bearing black flowers, on a green field; others, white stars, on a black field. Fraser, in his journey into khorassan, describes the moncler sahn, or square, in which stands the mausoleum of imaum reza, at mushed, moncler jackets as being' completely incrusted with mosaic work of tiles, painted and glazed, and arranged in figures of moncler outlet the most tasteful patterns and colours.' the dome of the mausoleum ' is covered with a coating of gilded tiles, relieved in some places around the neck with bands of azure blue, bearing arabic inscriptions, in gold letters.' the interior of the building ' is highly ornamented with tiles of the richest colours, profuse of azure and gold, disposed in the most tasteful manner into garlands and devices of flowers, mingled with texts from the koran.' the kalif houron al-rasheed is interred in this splendid building. The magnificent mosque and tomb of sultan mahomed khoda-bendeh, at sultanieh, in persia, erected about the year 1583, displays some most curious and interesting examples of decorated tiles; and the musjid sha, or royal mosque at ispahan, built by order of shah abbas the great, about the commencement of the seventeenth century, is also embellished with glazed tiles of the richest description. The interior of some of moncler clothing the more stately buildings of turkey are adorned with most beautiful tiles, moncler jacket sale which frequently display much of iranic taste in their composition."mr. Cuming exhibited an exceedingly elegant wall-tile,
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