tile

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Object Type
Museum number: 1895,1023.6
Description: Square tile, earthenware covered on the front with a presumed tin-glaze, with some on the sides. Painted in dark and light blue with swirling quatrefoil of 'Gothic foliage', bordered with a thick and thin line.
Production date: 1469-1470 (circa)
Production place: Made in: Umbria (?); Made in: Lazio (?); Made in: Viterbo (town) (?; possibly)
Findspot: Found/Acquired: Mazzatosta Chapel, chapel
Materials
Ware
Technique
Dimensions: Length: 10.60 centimetres; Thickness: 2.20 millimetres; Width: 10.60 millimetres
Bibliographic references: Thornton & Wilson 2009 / Italian Renaissance Ceramics: a catalogue of the British Museum collection (cat. 386b); Wilson 1987 / Ceramic Art of the Italian Renaissance (26); Wallis 1902 / Italian ceramic art: The maiolica pavement tiles of the fifteenth century (fig10); Rackham 1940 / Catalogue of Italian Maiolica (p60-61)
Location: On display (G46/dc1)
Subjects: plant; leaf
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1895
Department: Britain, Europe and Prehistory
Registration number: 1895,1023.6

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