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Description: | Artist: Unknown; Date(s): circa 1300 - 1400; Classification(s): earthenware, tile, glazing (coating), buff earthenware, the upper surface covered with a semi-opaque white glaze, painted with touches of turquoise, blue and reddish-brown lustre; Acquisition: given by The Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum, 1934-02-27 [C.25-1934]
Description: Eight-pointed star tile. Buff earthenware, the upper surface covered with a semi-opaque white glaze, painted with touches of turquoise, blue and reddish-brown lustre. In the middle, a pointed tree flanked by two birds and stylised plants, reserved on a lustre ground; the tree and ground below it are blue and turquoise and there are touches of turquoise behind each bird. The edge of the tile is blue. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/terms.htm | Publisher: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Rights holder: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Subjects: | Unknown tile earthenware | Temporal: | name=14th Century; start=1300; end=1400 | Source: | Fitzwilliam Museum | Creator: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Identifier: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/opacdire... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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