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Tile Set

About 1850-1851 (made)
Artist/Maker
Rafael Gonzalez Valls (manufacturer)
Place of origin
Valencia

Six tiles with stencilled geometric and stylised foliate decoration in sea-green, on a white ground.


Object details

Object type
Tile set
Parts
This object consists of 7 parts.
(Some alternative part names are also shown below)
  • Tile
  • Tile
  • Tile
  • Tile
  • Tile
  • Fragment
  • Tile
  • Fragment
  • Tile
  • Fragment
Materials and techniques
Earthenware with stencilled decoration
Earthenware
Brief description
Six tiles with stencilled decoration in sea-green, Gonzalez Valls, c.1850-51
Physical description
Six tiles with stencilled geometric and stylised foliate decoration in sea-green, on a white ground.
Dimensions
  • Each tile height: 20.1cm
  • Each tile width: 20.1cm
  • Each tile thickness: 1.7cm
Marks and inscriptions
Transliteration
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Object history
The tiles were found in the museum, but are recorded as previously belonging to the collection Illustrating Construction and Building Materials in the South Kensington Museum (see references). The tiles had previously been exhibited in the Great Exhibition, 1851.
It is not known when the tiles were removed from their original frame, nor their exact arrangement within it. However, by comparison with other frames in the series, it is likely that the tiles would have been mounted in a frame of nine tiles in a 3x3 formation, with these six tiles in a block, the frame being completed by another of the designs unnaccounted for in any of the known frames. This is likely to have been C.87-1998, as this design is represented on three tiles in the group, and all other designs where exactly three tiles are present are accounted for in frames for which documentary evidence exists of their arrangement..
Bibliographic references
  • Sandham, Henry (ed.). Science and Art Department of the Committee of Council on Education, Catalogue of the Collection Illustrating Construction and Building Materials in the South Kensington Museum. 3rd ed., London, 1862.
  • Ray, Anthony. Spanish Pottery 1248-1898 : with a catalogue of the collection in the Victoria and Albert Museum London, V&A Publications, 2000 1013 B10
  • Official descriptive and illustrated catalogue of the Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nation 1851. London : Spicer Bros., 1851 no. 55
  • Estall i Poles, Vicent Joan. Catálogo de la Colección de Azulejos de Serie del Siglo XIX. Castellón, n.d. [2000], pp23-24.
  • Graves, Alun. Tiles and Tilework of Europe. London, 2002, pp133-5.
Other numbers
  • CER.LOST OK.168, 169, 170, 171 - Previous LOST number
  • CER.LOST OK.173, 174 - Previous LOST number
  • CER.LOST OK.176, 177, 178, 179, 180, 181, 182, 183, 184, 185, 186, 187, 188, 189, 190, 191, 192, 193, 194, 195 - Previous LOST number
Collection
Ceramics Collection
Accession number
C.82:1-1998

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Record createdAugust 16, 2002
Record URL
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