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A rare mediaeval French cruciform unglazed culot panel and a set of two French unglazed shaped grotesque tiles

12TH CENTURY, DIJON OR RHÔNE VALLEY

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A rare mediaeval French cruciform unglazed culot panel and a set of two French unglazed shaped grotesque tiles
12TH CENTURY, DIJON OR RHÔNE VALLEY
Comprising: a panel with the Four Evangelists and four winged creatures rotating around the face of Christ, within wooden frame; two ogival tiles, one with a Janus bifrons profile and one with a grotesque male profile (3)

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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 Catalogus Oud-Aardewerk uit de verzameling Bastert-van Schaardenburg, Museum Boymans, Rotterdam, 1940, ill. V for related tiles A. Berendsen, Elseviers Tegelboek, Amsterdam & Brussel, 1965, ill. p. 63 for a related grotesque tile panel in the Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam.
Relief tiles are rare in France, nevertheless in connection with the Order of Cluny unglazed relief bicephalous tiles were produced. Their origin is to be found in Scythe and Persian sources, as well as Sumerian lunar adoration. During the Middle Ages iconography was reduced to chimaera-like strange creatures.

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