Lot 409
GROUP OF SPANISH GLAZED ARISTA CEILING TILES (DE DOS POR TABLA)
SEVILLE, 1525-1575
Fine Furniture and Works of Art
Auction: 27 September 2017 at 11:00 BST
£1,875
Description
glazed in yellow/honey-brown, black, blue and green, variously lustred, depicting a repeating pattern over two tiles of floral motifs to each corner and sun rays enclosing a banded border and central stylised flower head, comprising twenty-seven tiles and one partial tile (28)
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. 888, p. 364; and Brigitte Klesse, Kunstgewerbemuseum der Stadt Köln - Majolika, Köln 1966, cat 247, p.138.