Overglaze
Printing on earthenware and stoneware 1750-1800, printed and painted
collection of Winterthur Museum
A fireplace decorated with similar tiles in the Henry Francis du Pont home, now the Winterthur Museum and Country Estate. |
Shape Type: Miscellaneous Pattern Type: Literature, Classical, Mythology, and the Arts Date: c. 1770-1780 Dimensions:
Maker: Guy Green Description: A tin-glazed earthenware fireplace or wall tile overglaze printed in black and washed with green with a covered urn with acanthus scrolls in the revived classical style. It is one of many designs produced to serve as decorative tiles on a wall or on a fireplace surround. See below for other examples. The source of the design is Matthias Darley, 55 Vases, London 1770, plate... BACK TO CATALOG INDEX
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