SOUTH SPAIN, 15TH CENTURY AND LATER

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FOUR ANDALUSIAN POTTERY TILE PANELS
SOUTH SPAIN, 15TH CENTURY AND LATER
Each composed of four moulded and glazed tiles, decorated with a geometric pattern in green, yellow, and aubergine on white ground, set in heavy wood frames, some damages and areas of restoration
Each panel 11 x 11in. (28 x 28cm.) (4)

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Lot Essay

A tile of the same design as two of these panels, attributed to fifteenth century Valencia, is in the Valencia Museum. Similar tiles including the six-pointed star motifs within the hexagons which are between the major radiating motifs are in the floors of San Juan de la Penitencia, Toledo. Identical tiles are found forming the border around another tile design on the altar of the chapter-house of Santo Domingo el Antiguo in Toledo, dating to the early sixteenth century. Use is made of a number of tiles of the second design in the floor of the arista del capitule in the monastery of Santo Domingo el Antigue in Toledo. Further examples are also found in the frontal of the altar of San Juan de la Penitencia, also in Toledo. These can be dated to the late fifteenth or early sixteenth century.

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