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Lot 87

A set of nine French medieval tiles, Aines or Laon, 15th century

17 May 2017, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

£1,000 - £1,400

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A set of nine French medieval tiles, Aines or Laon, 15th century

Each with a white-slipped background on red clay, stamped and inlaid with a heraldic shield bearing three crowned lions' heads, curiously depicted in profile with tongues extended, about 13.5cm square (typical wear and losses) (9)

Footnotes

This tile design is illustrated by Édouard Fleury, Étude sur le Pavage Émaillé (1855), p.26, fig.56. Fleury noted that a pavement of similar tiles survived at Prémontré, a town just to the west of Laon in the département of Aisne in North-Eastern France. This area is well known for tile production in the later medieval period. Prémontré Abbey was a principal seat of the Premonstratensian Order.

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