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Lot 81

Three medieval figural tiles, Aisne, North Eastern France, 15th century

17 May 2017, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

£1,000 - £1,400

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Three medieval figural tiles, Aisne, North Eastern France, 15th century

Each with a white-slipped background on red clay, one with a full-length figure of a dancing girl flanked by rosettes, 13.8cm, another with a shoemaker or cobbler seated among the tools of his profession, 13.5cm-13.7cm, the third with traces of a man holding a spear, 13cm-13.3cm (wear and surface losses) (3)

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All three designs are recorded by Édouard Fleury, Étude sur le Pavage Émaillé (1855), p.54, fig.142, p.57, fig.152 and p.60, fig.158. See also W. Galsworthy Davie, Antique tiles from Laon Museum, Aisne (1876).

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