Floor tile
Category
Architecture / Features & Decoration
Date
1550 - 1553
Materials
Glazed earthenware.
Measurements
130 x 129 x 24 mm
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Ceramics and glass
NT 1545805.8
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). almost all glaze in gone, and much of the slip is worn away but the design is still distinguishable.
Provenance
Purchased with the family collection of Abbey contents in situ, from Mrs. Petronella Burnett-Brown , December 2009