Floor tile
Category
Architecture / Features & Decoration
Date
1550 - 1553
Materials
Glazed earthenware
Measurements
130 x 129 x 25 mm
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Lacock, Wiltshire
NT 1545810.30
Summary
Floor Tile - Design 7 – This design shows two dolphins either side of a tulip shaped vase with scorpion tail rising to the right. Fimbriated rosette at the bottom left hand corner plus part of arc and swag foliage. Olive green glazed body with a light green /creamy yellow slip inlay. There is a shallow central scoop on the reverse of the tile. 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, 6, 8, 28 and 31.(Group A – Burnett-Brown Tile Collection Report). The glaze is mostly lost but some dull dark patches remain across the surface. The tile has a brown appearance. It is particularly worn around the lower dolphin. There is one indentation and loss of the bottom left corner. There is mortar on both left and bottom edges. The right edge seems to have been deliberately reduced in thickness.
Provenance
Purchased with the family collection of Abbey contents in situ from Mrs Petronella Burnett-Brown December 2009.