Floor tile
Category
Architecture / Features & Decoration
Date
1550 - 1553
Materials
Glazed earthenware.
Measurements
130 x 128 x 23 mm
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Ceramics and glass
NT 1545805.7
Summary
Complete Floor Tile - Design 2 - Sharington impaling Faringdon. Half chequerboard design and half three unicorns within a thick boarder. Olive green glazed body with a light yellow/cream inlay. From a collection of 10 designs of tiles commissioned for Lacock Abbey by William Sharington. Manufactured between 1550-3. Probably interchangeable in a carpet pattern with designs 3, 7, 8, 28 and 31 (Group A – Burnett-Brown Tile Collection Report). Approximatly 5% of the glaze is left, some of the slip is significantly worn and missing around the edges. . Top edge damaged and top left corner chipped.
Provenance
Purchased with the family collection of Abbey contents in situ, from Mrs Petronella Burnett-Brown, December 2009.