tile
- Museum number
- 1980,0307.147
- Description
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Plastic clay tile, unglazed solid black body with white inlay, featuring a heraldic martlet within a lozenge and trefoils at the corners. Maker's mark on reverse.
- Production date
- 1850 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Length: 15 centimetres
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Width: 15 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- For an illustration of this tile, see Austwick 1980, no. 36. Lockett attributes this tile to A. W. N. Pugin, see Terence Lockett, 'Collecting Victorian Tiles', (Woodbridge, Antique Collector's Club and Baron, 1979), p. 16, fig. 4. This design is often confused with A. W. N. Pugin's own heraldic martlet, also found on tiles designed for his own home; however, this marlet is not of the same design, but merely influenced by it. For the tiles featuring Pugin's martlet from his Ramsgate home, see Paul Atterbury and Clive Wainwright (eds.) 'Pugin: a Gothic Passion' (London, V & A and Yale, 1994), p. 146, fig. 266.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1980
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 1980,0307.147
