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 tiles in tin-glazed earthenware painted in polychrome with a continuous design forming quatrefoil compartments enclosing stylised fruit and flowers. The intervals are filled with arabesque foliage in reserve against a blue ground.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
tin-glazed earthenware painted in polychrome
Brief description
Sixteen tiles, tin-glazed earthenware painted in polychrome, Netherlands, early 17th century
Physical description
Panel of tiles in tin-glazed earthenware painted in polychrome with a continuous design forming quatrefoil compartments enclosing stylised fruit and flowers. The intervals are filled with arabesque foliage in reserve against a blue ground.
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.50, cat 14
Collection
Accession number
C.488-1923

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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