Floor tile
Category
Architecture / Features & Decoration
Date
1550 - 1553
Materials
Glazed earthenware
Measurements
140 x 130 x 25 mm
Collection
Ceramics and glass
NT 1545809.29
Summary
Floor Tile - Design 6 – Initials W and G tied together with a ribbon below a swagged canopy within an arch, the head of which continues. 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. These are part of a set with designs 1(or 2), 3, 7, 8, 28 and 31.(Group A – Burnett-Brown Tile Collection Report). Over most of the surface the colouring is red and cream but with a dark green glaze around the lower right G. In some places the shine of the darkened green glaze can be seen. The bounding slip is lost on the left edge. All the edges show signs of the mortar which fixed the tile in the fireplace.
Provenance
Purchased with the family collection of Abbey contents in situ from Mrs. Petronella Burnett-Brown, December 2009.