Floor tile
Category
Architecture / Features & Decoration
Date
Unknown
Materials
Glazed earthenware
Measurements
53 x 50 x 24 mm
Collection
Lacock, Wiltshire
NT 1991019.30.4
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). Four of four parts of a tile and this is the bottom left. 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. This is the smallest fragment and therefore has none of the single, central scoop on the reverse.