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Object Type
Museum number: 1904,0706.14
Description: Tile of pale pinkish-buff earthenware with presumed tin glaze on the front. Painted in blue, blue-black and bright green with a four-leaf motif in an incurved square; on each side are five diagonal overlapping strokes. Label on reverse (probably Wallis's handwriting): `Vatican'.
Production date: 1492-1495 (circa)
Production place: Made in: Italy; Made in: Lazio (?); Made in: Umbria (?); Made in: Perugia (city) (?); Made in: Deruta (?)
Findspot: Found/Acquired: Rome (city); Found/Acquired: Appartamento Borgia (?)
Materials
Ware
Technique
Dimensions: Length: 9 centimetres; Width: 9 centimetres
Bibliographic references: Thornton & Wilson 2009 / Italian Renaissance Ceramics: a catalogue of the British Museum collection (cat. 384); Wallis 1902 / Italian ceramic art: The maiolica pavement tiles of the fifteenth century (fig87)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: plant; leaf
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1904
Department: Britain, Europe and Prehistory
Registration number: 1904,0706.14

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