Wall tile
Category
Architecture / Features & Decoration
Date
1800
Materials
Tin-glazed earthenware
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Speke Hall, Merseyside
NT 1196460.32
Summary
One of a collection of twenty two blue and white Dutch delftware tiles, hand painted underglaze blue decoration on white ground. Various rural landscapes contained in roundel, single foliate spray to each corner. cf. those in Gun Room. , cf.SPE.M.112.B. This tile shows a picture of a figure in a boat on the left of the picture, swans on the water and a building on the shore. A boat with a figure aboard can be seen further away on the right.