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LOT 1900
Post Medieval Glazed Ceramic Tile Group
17TH-18TH CENTURY A.D.
4 x 3 1/2 - 4 1/8 x 3 3/4 in. (1.3 kg total, 10 x 9 - 10.5 x 9.5 cm).
Comprising two designs in relief including three horses in an enclosure and two animals, likely cats, fighting; coloured glazes. [8]
ProvenanceAcquired 1990s-early 2000s.
East Anglian private collection.
Cf. similar example in style, with double border, in the British Museum, inventory no.OA.7394.
FootnotesThe tile production increases in the second half of the sixteenth century and during the following centuries. The fragments discovered from various localities (pot-tiles, rectangular, triangular and trapezoidal panels, open-work crest tiles) were all produced in regional workshops, from the end of the 15th century or at the beginning of the 16th century. They all had diverse decorative motifs, mainly animals and geometrical or vegetal combinations, almost all of them singular finds for this study area.
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Very heavy high-carat merchants ring with oval bezel bearing heraldic helmet and shield design with a chevron below two mullets and an eagle's head at the base; the helmet with luxurious looped mantle and crest of a human bust; to the underside, an incuse panel with reserved swan on a textured field probably a device alluding to the family name. 17.61 grams, 23.28 mm overall, 17.93 mm internal diameter (approximate size British P 1/2, USA 7 3/4, Europe 16.86, Japan 16)
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