GROUP OF SPANISH GLAZED ARISTA CEILING TILES (DE DOS POR TABLA)
SEVILLE, 1525-1575
£2,375
Fine Furniture and Works of Art
Auction: 27 September 2017 at 11:00 BST
Description
glazed in yellow/honey-brown, dark manganese-brown, blue and green, variously lustred, depicting a repeating pattern over two tiles, with flower heads to each corner flanking a quatrefoil border enclosing a central stylised flower head and leaves, comprising twenty-three tiles (two broken and some with chips to corners), and eleven partial tiles (34)
Dimensions
each tile 25 x 12.5cm approx.
Footnote
Provenance: From a private Scottish collection
Note: For similar examples of this pattern please see Antony Ray, Spanish Pottery 1248-1898 with a catalogue of the collection in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London 2000, cat 890, p. 364 and plate 87; and Alfonso Pleguezuelo, Lozas y Azulejos de Triana - Colección Carranza, Seville 2011, cat 62, p. 73. The Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology also has a similar tile depicting this pattern in their collection.