Floor tile
Category
Architecture / Features & Decoration
Date
Unknown
Materials
Glazed earthenware
Measurements
133 x 78 x 26 mm
Collection
Lacock, Wiltshire
NT 1991018.17
Summary
Floor tile - Design 32 - Fragment - The tile has a negative form as the slip is the background and the body showing through is the design. The design appears stylised and almost freehand but there are small details like overlapping petals in pendulous flower (snowdrop?). There also an open rosette and three veined leaves. The edge of the tile is straight to slighty bevelled. The little surviving glaze is greeny-yellow. The central part of a 16 tile set featuring Deo Gratias with designs 37, 39 and 40. Early 16th century, possibly 1520. (Group B – Burnett-Brown Tile Collection Report). The tile fragment is in stable condition and is the right side of a tile which appears to have been cut in half. The fragment is very dark which is likely from heat damage. The only significant patches of slip and glaze are at the top of the fragment which shows the rosette design. There is damage to the reverse with a big chunk missing from the bottom right. On the reverse is half of a single, central scoop.