Three tiles with stencilled decoration in brown, Gonzalez Valls, c.1850-51

Three tiles with stencilled decoration in brown, on a white ground. The tiles are probably intended to form a border.

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 three tiles at one end, the frame being completed by a block of six tiles of another of the designs unnaccounted for in any of the known frames. This is likely to have been C.82-1998, as this design is represented on six tiles in the group, and all other designs where exactly six tiles are present are accounted for in frames for which documentary evidence exists of their arrangement.

C.87:1-1998