Carlotta - the museum database

NM 0282/1921 :: tile

Object description: Pinkish white paste, hexagonal, blue underglaze paint on greyish white slip under transparent glaze that makes the blue paint blur and leave turquoise traces. Towards a background decoration of foliate vine is a scoll with an inscription saying “e ab saviesa”

Data elements

Inventory number

NM 0282/1921

Serie nummer

12516

Object

tile

Country - Findspot

Spain : Europe

Country, Swedish - Findspot

Spanien

Material

Glazed pottery

Material, Swedish

Keramik; Lera; Glaserat lergods

Acquisition

Lane A., A guide to the Collection of Tiles, Victoria and Albert Museum, London 1960, p. 71-72, pl. 42a.

Description

Pinkish white paste, hexagonal, blue underglaze paint on greyish white slip under transparent glaze that makes the blue paint blur and leave turquoise traces. Towards a background decoration of foliate vine is a scoll with an inscription saying “e ab saviesa”

Time - Manufacturing, earliest

15th century AD

Name - Owner

Nationalmuseum, Stockholm

Description: Nationalmuseum is a publicly owned cultural institution.Nationalmuseum%20is%20a%20publicly%20owned%20cultural%20institution.
Source - http: www.nationalmuseum.se, collections.smvk.se

Comments

This tile is part of a set of four hexagonal tiles, to be assembled as an octogon and probably with a square tile in its center. The scroll says, “Good government, by diligence, and by wisdom and by sound thought. This particular one should constitute the before last part of the ensemble.

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