Tile
ca. 1617-27 (made)
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Large square floor tile, tin-glazed earthenware. Painted with a griffin in yellow and orange, outlined in manganese purple on a blue ground.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Tin-glazed earthenware |
| Brief description | Large square tile, tin-glazed earthenware, painted with a griffin, Italy, ca. 1600 |
| Physical description | Large square floor tile, tin-glazed earthenware. Painted with a griffin in yellow and orange, outlined in manganese purple on a blue ground. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | A griffin |
| Credit line | Given by J.H. Fitzhenry, Esq. |
| Object history | Similar tiles, from the same pavement, were in the Schloss Museum, Berlin (now thought to be lost) and are said to have come from the Palazzo Borghese, Rome. The eagels and griffins are derived from the arms of the Borghese family. |
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| Bibliographic reference | Timothy Wilson, Italian Maiolica and Europe: Medieval and Later Italian Pottery in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 2017, p. 389, cat. 205 |
| Other number | 1068 - Rackham (1977) |
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| Accession number | C.224-1911 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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