Floor tile
Category
Architecture / Features & Decoration
Date
Unknown
Materials
Glazed earthenware
Measurements
71 x 63 x 25 mm
Collection
Lacock, Wiltshire
NT 1991019.30.3
Summary
Floor tile - Design 33 - Fragment - The design depicts has a band of five petalled rosettes with a large leaf facing inwards sprouting from the band. There is a smaller leaf facing the corner flanked by two more rosettes. The design is set diagonally so presumably made a four tile set with self. The remaining glaze is green on the body and yellow glaze on the slip. Potentially late 15th to early 16th century. (Group C – Burnett-Brown Tile Collection Report). Three of four parts of a tile and this is the top right. The fragment is in a stable condition. There is a small amount of slip, one of the rosettes, in the corner and a little glaze but it is not shiny. Along the right edge is a patch of glaze. This is one of the smaller fragments and therefore has a small section of the single, central scoop on the reverse.