Floor tile
Category
Architecture / Features & Decoration
Date
1550 - 1553
Materials
Glazed Earthenware
Measurements
129 x 129 x 22 mm
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Ceramics and glass
NT 1545808.32
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. There is one keying hole cut into the back of the tile. 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 very badly worn, with no glaze and slip remaining on only the bottom right hand corner. Centrally at the top of the tile there is a 38mm long scratch which happened prior to firing.
Provenance
Purchased with the family collection of Abbey contents in situ from Mrs. Petronella Burnett-Brown, December 2009.