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LOT 2045
Elizabethan Period Ceramic Fire Brick Group
CIRCA 16TH CENTURY A.D.
5 - 5 1/2 in. (6.4 kg total, 13-14 cm).
Comprising four bricks with raised designs: scrolling vegetation; two monograms, one a merchant's mark, in roundels divided by an object with tiered base and billeted border; male and female facing busts within dot-dash border; worn crowned shield issuing flowering vegetation. [4]
ProvenanceAcquired 1990s-early 2000s.
East Anglian private collection.
Cf. similar specimen in the British Museum, inventory no.OA.9377.
FootnotesThese glazed stove or floor tiles are similar to the ones of the great hall and the Tudor kitchens at Hampton Court Palace, made of ceramic, with a glaze to make it hard-wearing and washable. Not just the furnishings, but the palaces themselves were multi-coloured, with brick walls painted red, and exposed timbers in yellow, red, green and white
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Glazed Vessel Group
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Tudor Gold Ring with Rock Crystal Cabochon.
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Flat-section hoop supporting a rectangular bezel with flared sidewall, inset cabochon above. 0.91 grams, 20.81 mm overall, 14.98 mm internal diameter (approximate size British H, USA 3 3/4, Europe 6.18, Japan 6)
Ex London, UK, collection, before 2000. Property of a West London, UK, gentleman. -
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