tile
- Museum number
- 1992,0510.2
- Description
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Earthenware tile, dust-pressed buff body with a green glaze over all, with moulded decoration forming a repeat pattern of an incurved lozenge containing a four-petal motif, the corners forming a circle containing trefoils. Maker's Mark on reverse.
- Dimensions
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Length: 10.50 centimetres
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Width: 10.50 centimetres
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- Curator's comments
- For an example of the same design but line-impressed instead of moulded, see 1992,0510.1. For another example of the same design with moulded decoration, see 1992.0510.3. This design is directly copied from medieval tiles; for example, see Eames 1980, vol. 2, design no. 195, which may be from a fifteenth-century tile from Lilleshall Abbey.
Tiles with this design were frequently favoured by the architects Edward Graham Paley (1823-95) and Hubert James Austin (1841-1915) whose pavements are distinctive for the use of line-impressed tiles, see P. & D. Brown, 'Lancaster Architects--Church Terracotta and Tiles', Glazed Expressions, Winter 1990, no. 21, pp. 8-10. Paley and Austin used such tiles as early as 1873 in the restoration of Halsall Church. Initially the pair favoured Godwin tiles, but swtiched to using Craven Dunnill tiles by the late 1870s.
See Fired Earth 1991, nos.135-8 for comparative examples from a private collection.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1992
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 1992,0510.2