Tile

Dateca. 1775

MediumTin-glazed earthenware (Delft / Delftware)

Dimensions5 3/16" x 5 3/16" (13cm x 13 cm)

Credit LineMuseum Purchase

Object number1997-83

DescriptionA square tile with canted edges and a bluish-white tin glaze. Decorated in blue with a European landscape consisting of a building next to the sea with ships in the background. Stylized corner decorations of bee's head or spider's head design consisting of five dark blue dots connected by thin lines in a circular pattern with straight lines extending out from center.
ProvenancePurchased by Ivor Noel Hume during the 1970s? and used around the fireplace in the James Anderson House. Removed from James Anderson House fireplace during alterations to building in September 1995.