Forgotten Gallery · Ceramics
Tile
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Five objects off display, chosen for · from the archive



Tile
One of 12 tiles and 4 border tiles. grey earthenware, stamped in raised outline and filled in with coloured glazes. Overall design: along the top of the panel is a frieze with a repeating design of two foxes under alternating trees with others moulded with a fox coiled in a square medallion, the decoration is in blue, yellow, green and manganese-purple, designed for the National Competition by James Skinner of Burslem School Art. English, 1903. This border tile is only decorated with a blue glazed ground.
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Tile
15th century - 16th century · Turkey
One of six tiles, siliceous-glazed earthenware, painted in blue, green and red on a white ground with a pattern of large conventional flowers symmetrically arranged. Turkey, Iznik, about 1550-1599.
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Tile
One of six tiles, "Azulejos", tin-glazed red earthenware, impressed, Hispano-Moresque, the design consists of interlacing geometrical bands in white, the interspaces being painted in manganese-purple, blue, green and yellow. Spanish (Seville), 15th century.
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Tile
Unknown · 17th century · iznik
Glazed earthenware tiles, decorated with flowers, buds and leaves in blue, turquoise, red and green, with a white background, Turkey, probably Iznik, c.1600.
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