GROUP OF SPANISH GLAZED ARISTA CEILING TILES (DE DOS POR TABLA)
SEVILLE, 1525-1575
£2,600
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 chevron borders, leaves and circular bands with waved decoration enclosing central stylised flower heads, comprising thirty-eight tiles (two broken) and thirty-one partial tiles (69)
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 889, p. 364; and Brigitte Klesse, Kunstgewerbemuseum der Stadt Köln - Majolika, Köln 1966, cat 245, p. 137. The National Museums Scotland also have similar examples of this tile pattern (1894.207.3).