tile
- Museum number
- 1999,0310.3
- Description
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Earthenware tile, with relief-moulded decoration of a lion wearing a coronet and facing to the left, with one paw raised, surrounded by a strapwork border. Glazed in blue, green, black and rust on a white ground. Partial factory backstamp.
- Production date
- 19thC(late)-20thC(early)
- Dimensions
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Height: 140 millimetres
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Width: 140 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- One of a group of three tiles (see 1999,3-10, 1 and 2) based on Spanish tiles of the 16th century. For examples with similar interlocking strapwork borders, see 1887,10-10,8, OA 4376 and AF87. This tile is a direct copy of those that decorated buildings erected by Charles V in the Royal Place in Seville.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1999
- Acquisition notes
- Part of group of eight tiles purchased together in Ronda for £63.
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 1999,0310.3
