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

Panel

1610-30 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Panel of sixteen tiles in tin-glazed earthenware painted in polychrome with a formal design of fruit and flowers. On each tile is a vase of flowers within a quatrefoil, and between the quatrefoils is a symmetrical arrangement of foliage.


Object details

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Object type
Materials and techniques
tin-glazed earthenware painted in polychrome
Brief description
Sixteen tiles in tin-glazed earthenware painted in polychrome, Netherlands, 1610-30
Physical description
Panel of sixteen tiles in tin-glazed earthenware painted in polychrome with a formal design of fruit and flowers. On each tile is a vase of flowers within a quatrefoil, and between the quatrefoils is a symmetrical arrangement of foliage.
Dimensions
  • Each tile length: 12.7cm
  • Each tile width: 12.7cm
Credit line
Given by Mr Henry Van der Bergh through Art Fund
Subjects depicted
Bibliographic reference
Dam, J. D. van, et. al. Dutch tiles in the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Philadelphia : Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1984, p.51, cat 18
Collection
Accession number
C.492-1923

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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