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Tile

Earthenware, tin-glazed with sponged decoration in manganese purple to give a regular alternation of lighter and darker bands, mark VRON impressed. Northern French, early 19th century

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19th century

One of six tiles, cream-coloured tin-glazed earthenware, decorated in slightly raised outline, lustred and painted in colours with floriated crosses, and rosettes surrounded by interlacing bands, symmetrically arranged. Manufactured by Messrs. Escofet, Fortuny, and Company of Madrid, in imitation of Hispano-Moresque ware. Spanish, 19th century.

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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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16th century-17th century

Red earthenware, tin-glazed, with part of a pattern of geometrical panelling filled with arabesque designs painted in blue, yellow, orange and green. Netherlandish, late 16th or early 17th century

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One of four tiles, tin-glazed earthenware, painted in manganese-purple with a scriptural subject within a circular panel, in the corners a bifurcated foliage ornament, depicting The Crucifixion. The Netherlands, 18th century

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