Floor tile
Category
Architecture / Features & Decoration
Date
1550 - 1553
Materials
Glazed earthenware
Measurements
130 x 128 x 23 mm
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Lacock, Wiltshire
NT 1545807.13
Summary
Floor Tile - Design 4 - WS initials either side of a scorpion with dolphins below and half rosettes to the side. There is sunflower type foliage at the base below the dolphins. The scorpion is vey articulated with details of eyes and crease around the mouth. Olive green glazed body with a light green /creamy yellow slip inlay. From a collection of designs of tiles commissioned for Lacock Abbey by William Sharington. Manufactured between 1550-3. Design 4 and 5 both have rosettes and form a simple pattern with each other matching up the half rosettes. (Group A – Burnett-Brown Tile Collection Report). The tile has some of the glaze remaining while the slip is lost in places. Most of the centre and lower right edge of the tile is worn.
Provenance
Purchased with the family collection of Abbey contents in situ from Mrs. Petronella Burnett-Brown, December 2009.