Image of Gallery in South Kensington
On display at V&A South Kensington
Ceramics, Room 139, The Curtain Foundation Gallery

Tile

ca. 1950-1959 (designed and made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Square stoneware tile, with painting in brown and dull blue on a grey glaze, depicting a rain cloud over the sea. The tile press-moulded, and of industrial manufacture.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Stoneware, press-moulded, with painted decoration over a grey glaze
Brief description
Tile of stoneware, decoration on blank tile by Bernard Leach, glaze and painting, St. Ives, Cornwall, c.1950-60.
Physical description
Square stoneware tile, with painting in brown and dull blue on a grey glaze, depicting a rain cloud over the sea. The tile press-moulded, and of industrial manufacture.
Dimensions
  • Height: 14.7cm
  • Thickness: 1.5cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'SI' in monogram and 'BL' in monogram, painted
  • '...NDY / ENGLAND', moulded on back (Probably for the firm of Candy & Co. Ltd.)
Object history
Unprovenanced find.
Production
Decorated by Bernard Leach at the Leach Pottery, St Ives, using an industrially produced tile blank, probably supplied by Candy & Co. Ltd of Newton Abbot, Devon.
Collection
Accession number
C.89-1997

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Record createdFebruary 16, 2006
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