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Tile

1760-1770 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Decoration: Bird. Blue, green, yellow, orange, and a bianco-sopra-bianco border.
Body: Buff, fine-grained. 2 pin-holes near corners of back.
Glaze: Lavender.
Surface: Concave.

Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Tin-glazed earthenware
Brief description
Tile, earthenware, blue glazed with enamelled painting of bird on foliage, decorative floral border in white, Bristol, 18th Century
Physical description
Decoration: Bird. Blue, green, yellow, orange, and a bianco-sopra-bianco border.
Body: Buff, fine-grained. 2 pin-holes near corners of back.
Glaze: Lavender.
Surface: Concave.
Dimensions
  • Width: 128mm
  • Thickness: 8mm
Object history
This tile was purchased in November 1892, when the South Kensington Museum bought more than 500 tiles of different types from Mrs Elizabeth Edkins of 12 Charlotte Street, Bristol, for £125.0s.0d
Inventory nrs 920 to 1435-1892
Production
(probably Redcliff Back, Richard Frank).
Bibliographic references
  • Archer, Michael. Delftware: the tin-glazed earthenware of the British Isles. A catalogue of the collection in the Victoria and Albert Museum. London: HMSO, in association with the Victoria and Albert Museum, 1997. ISBN 0 11 290499 8
  • Lane, Pl: 38.E. Ray Tiles, Nos: 375-383.
Other number
N.208 - <U>Delftware</U> (1997) cat. no.
Collection
Accession number
927B-1892

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Record createdJanuary 29, 2000
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