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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. 1500-1550 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Buff coloured earthenware with a design in relief and covered with a green glaze. In the middle is a bust to left in a circular medallion and round the edge is a border of discs; the intervals are filled in with conventional foliage.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Earthenware with relief decoration and glazed
Brief description
Tile of buff coloured earthenware with a design in relief and covered with a green glaze. French, Normandy, about 1500-1550.
Physical description
Buff coloured earthenware with a design in relief and covered with a green glaze. In the middle is a bust to left in a circular medallion and round the edge is a border of discs; the intervals are filled in with conventional foliage.
Dimensions
  • Taken from register length: 8in
  • Taken from register width: 4 7/8in
Credit line
Bought
Object history
Bought from the Edkins Collection.
Bibliographic reference
Forrer, Geschichte der Fliesenkeramik
Collection
Accession number
1766-1892

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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