Fine Porcelain and Pottery - 9th September 2014
Lot 17
Three Antwerp floor or pavement tiles 16th century
Estimate £500 - £800
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Description
Three Antwerp floor or pavement tiles 16th century, two painted with a profile portrait of a man believed to be Federico da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino, the other of a woman wearing a cloth turban hat, 9.8cm. (3)
Cf. Anne Berendsen, Tiles - A General History, p.109 for a similar example, and p.102-107 for a discussion of Antwerp tiles, including those commissioned for The Vyne, Hampshire. Montefeltro is known as a popular subject for tiles of this type and can be recognised by the bump on his nose, where surgeons removed the bridge following injuries sustained during a jousting tournament.