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Floor Tile from the Lombardini Chapel
Pottery: Unknown (Probably)
Maiolica fragment of a trapezoidal floor or pavement tile, painted in dark blue and yellow with the oak tree of the Della Rovere family.
Buff earthenware, tin-glazed on the upper surface and painted in dark blue and yellow. Approximately triangular fragment of a trapezoidal tile, the lower part embedded in cement. Painted in yellow with the oak tree of the Della Rovere family reserved in a dark blue ground.
History note: From the collection of Henry Wallis; given to Bernard Rackham by Wallis's son, Harold Wallis of Purley. See Bernard Rackham's notebook accompanying his bequest of sherds, p. 11, C for this tile. He noted that he thought it might have been given to Wallis by a former Director of the Victoria and Albert Museum, but that this was conjecture. Wallis might have acquired it in Italy, perhaps from Forlì.
Bequeathed by Bernard Rackham
Depth: 2.2 cm
Height: 6.9 cm
Width: 11.2 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1964) by Rackham, Bernard
16th Century, Early#
Circa
1513
CE
-
1523
CE
From the tile pavement comissioned by Bartolomeo Lombardini (1430-1512) for the chapel he had built in the now demolished church of San Francesco Grande, Forlì.
Probably made in Forlì or in Faenza
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( dark blue and yellow)
Front
composed of
tin-glaze
buff Earthenware
Accession number: C.4.1-1964
Primary reference Number: 15563
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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