Floor tile
Category
Architecture / Features & Decoration
Date
Unknown
Materials
Glazed earthenware
Measurements
112 x 106 x 23 mm
Collection
Lacock, Wiltshire
NT 1991017.49
Summary
Floor tile - Design 31 - Fragment - The tile has a mid frieze of scrolls and a fimbriated rosette. The tile has olive and light olive glaze. From a collection of tiles commissioned for Lacock Abbey by William Sharington. Manufactured between 1550-3. Part of a pattern with designs 1 (or 2), 3, 6, 7, 8 and 28. (Group A – Burnett-Brown Tile Collection Report). This large tile fragment is in good condition and is the bottom right and middle of a tile. Most of the slip is present but it is worn and thin in places. Small areas of the slip are not glazed. On the body, the glaze is a little patchy but there is glaze across most of the fragment. On the reverse is a single, central scoop.