The Tring tiles

English

British Museum

1320-1330

This is a panel of eight tiles in a series which depict the Miracles of the Christ Child according to the Apocryphal Gospels. Judging from their remarkable state of preservation and elaborate design these tiles were most certainly intended to decorate a wall rather than a pavement. This tile work is a remarkable and rare example of the graffiato method where the surface of the tile is first covered in white slip, then incised with a design after which the latter was scraped away from the entire background.

• Medium: white clay with yellow glaze
• Dimensions: 32.5 x 16.2 x 3.5cm
• Art Fund Grant: £500 ( Total: £1,420)
• ArtFunded in: 1922
• Vendor: Sotheby's

Provenance

Rector of Bradwell-juxta-Mere, Essex. It may have come from the church.

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