Four Antwerp polychrome ornamental tiles
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Four Antwerp polychrome ornamental tiles

1550-1570

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Four Antwerp polychrome ornamental tiles
1550-1570
Comprising: one with a bunch of grapes issuing from a pomegranate; one with foliage within panels; one with interlaced féronnerie foliage; one cruciform (4)
Literature
Exhibition Catalogue, Catalogus Antwerps Plateel, Tentoonstelling Fries Museum Leeuwarden, 18 December 1971- 29 January 1972, ill. 108, p. 69 for the cruciform tile.
Special notice
Christie's charge a premium to the buyer on the final bid price of each lot sold at the following rates: 23.8% of the final bid price of each lot sold up to and including €150,000 and 14.28% of any amount in excess of €150,000. Buyers' premium is calculated on the basis of each lot individually.

Lot Essay

See C. Dumortier, Céramique de la Renaissance à Anvers, Bruxelles, 2002, ill. 37, p.190 for a similar foliate tile in the Vleeshuis, Antwerp.

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