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Tile with a relief decoration

DocumentedSupported by at least one credible specialist source.

Record status

Individual type · partial

Period

c. 1100 - c. 1199

Quartz-fritware tile covered with a turquoise tin-lead-alkali glaze, and fragment of text in relief. The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, holds this object as BK-2000-76-C; its record gives material recorded as glaze, earthenware, quartz; technique vitrification, fired, formed; measurements height 3.5 cm x length 22 cm x width 11.5 cm.

Description translated from the museum's Dutch catalogue text; details are those of this museum object, and how far it represents a wider type has not been independently verified.

Evidence at a glance

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Physical characteristics

Material
glaze, earthenware, quartz
Technique
vitrification, fired, formed
Measurements
height 3.5 cm x length 22 cm x width 11.5 cm
Dimensions museum
height 3.5 cm x length 22 cm x width 11.5 cm

Identification

Original title
Tegel met een decoratie in reliëf
Holding institution
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Museum object number
BK-2000-76-C
Museum classification
tile

Catalogue references

No catalogue numbers recorded. Numbers are only published once transcribed from a verified edition of a standard catalogue — they are never inferred.

Research required

  • Research required: this record describes a single museum object; confirm the wider type, attribution, dimensions, marks and catalogue references against ceramics and tile references.
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