Floor tile
Category
Architecture / Features & Decoration
Date
1550 - 1553
Materials
Glazed Earthenware
Measurements
125 x 120 x 22 mm
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Ceramics and glass
NT 1545808.21
Summary
Floor Tile - Design 5 – Initials W and G tied together with a ribbon below a swagged canopy within an arch. There are quarter rosettes in the upper corners. 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 and do not seem to fit with the carpet pattern of the bulk of the Sharington tiles. (Group A – Burnett-Brown Tile Collection Report). The tile is badly damaged and broken along the left and bottom edges, perhaps intentionally so. However much of the glaze remains on the right hand side of the tile, but the left has very little glaze and some of the slip is lost. There is a 35mm long scratch on the top right hand quarter of the tile, which appears to have happened prior to firing.
Provenance
Purchased with the family collection of Abbey contents in situ from Mrs. Petronella Burnett-Brown, December 2009.