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Image of Gallery in South Kensington
On display at V&A South Kensington
Ceramics, Room 137, The Curtain Foundation Gallery

Tile

ca. 1300 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Tile, red earthenware, impressed with a design of a grotesque monster with webbed fore feet and a double tail.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Impressed earthenware
Brief description
Tile, red earthenware, impressed with a design of a grotesque monster with webbed fore feet and a double tail, from the Stadion'sche Domherrenhof at Constance, German or Swiss, circa 1300
Physical description
Tile, red earthenware, impressed with a design of a grotesque monster with webbed fore feet and a double tail.
Dimensions
  • Weight: 0.970kg
  • Taken from register height: 5 1/2in
  • Taken from register width: 5 1/2in
Style
Object history
Originally from the Stadion'sche Domherrenhof at Constance, destroyed by fire in 1898.

Formerly in the collection of Dr Robert Forrer. Bought from him in 1902.
Production
From the Stadion'sche Domherrenhof, Constance.
Subject depicted
Collection
Accession number
82-1902

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Record createdSeptember 26, 2008
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