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





Tile
1800-1825 · Iran
Middle East, Tilework. Tile from a spandrel, composed of 46 tiles, from an archway previously in a royal garden in Qajar Tehran, Iran, possibly 1800-1825.
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Tile
Derby Tile Company Ltd · 19th century
One of eighteen tiles of glazed buff-coloured earthenware, painted in dark blue, green and manganese-purple, outlined in olive-green, on a white slip, made by the Derby Tile Company, of Belper, as a copy of Damascus tiles of the 16th or 17th century, forming part of a panel in the Victoria and Albert Museum, No.131-1897. English, 19th century
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One of four tiles, tin-glazed earthenware, painted in manganese-purple, each tile painted with a scriptural subject within a circular frame, in the corners a bifurcated ornament, depicting Elijah with the widow of Zarephath and her son. Netherlands, 18th century
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China
Cer, China, Qing, monochrome, white
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