- Object name(s):
- Tile
- Brief description:
- Square stoneware tile, with painting in brown and dull blue on a grey glaze, depicting a rain cloud over the sea. The tile press-moulded, and of industrial manufacture.
- Collection:
- Victoria and Albert Museum
- Associated concept:
- Ceramics
- Associated concept:
- Tiles
- Current reproduction location:
- https://framemark.vam.ac.uk/collections/2006BA0547/full/!100,100/0/default.jpg
- Location type:
- Thumbnail
- Dimension:
- Height
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 14.7
- Dimension:
- Thickness
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 1.5
- Inscription content:
- 'SI' in monogram and 'BL' in monogram, painted
- Inscription content:
- '...NDY / ENGLAND', moulded on back
- Inscription interpretation:
- Probably for the firm of Candy & Co. Ltd.
- Material:
- stoneware
- Object history note:
- Unprovenanced find.
- Object name:
- Tile
- Object number:
- C.89-1997
- Object production date:
- ca. 1950-1959
- Date - association:
- designed and made
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1945-01-01
- Date - latest:
- 1959-12-31
- Object production note:
- Tile manufactured and painted by Leach.
- Object production note:
- Decorated by Bernard Leach at the Leach Pottery, St Ives, using an industrially produced tile blank, probably supplied by Candy & Co. Ltd of Newton Abbot, Devon.
- Object production organisation:
- Candy & Co. Ltd.
- Organisation's association:
- manufacturer
- Object production organisation:
- Leach Pottery
- Object production person:
- Leach, Bernard
- Person's association:
- painter
- Object production place:
- St Ives
- Place association:
- decorated
- Object production place:
- Newton Abbot
- Place association:
- made
- Place note:
- probably
- Physical description:
- Square stoneware tile, with painting in brown and dull blue on a grey glaze, depicting a rain cloud over the sea. The tile press-moulded, and of industrial manufacture.
- Reproduction number:
- 2006BA0547
- Responsible department/section:
- CER
- Technique:
- painted
- Technique:
- moulded
- Technique:
- Stoneware, press-moulded, with painted decoration over a grey glaze
- Text reason:
- Collections online record
Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/4c649fb2-3102-3cc9-8429-43486e25b05b
Use licence for this record: CC BY-NC
Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/4c649fb2-3102-3cc9-8429-43486e25b05b, Victoria and Albert Museum, CC BY-NC
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