Tile with a flying bird and flowers
Record status
Individual type · partial
Period
c. 1600 - c. 1699
Quartz-fritware tile decorated with a flying bird, flowers, and a Chinese cloud in blue, white, black, green, and turquoise glazes on a yellow ground. The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, holds this object as BK-NM-11755; its record gives material recorded as earthenware, lead glaze, quartz; technique vitrification, paint, fired, formed; measurements depth 2.4 cm x height 20.5 cm x width 21.5 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
- Linked sources
- 1
- Photograph views
- 1
- Catalogue references
- 0
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Physical characteristics
- Material
- earthenware, lead glaze, quartz
- Technique
- vitrification, paint, fired, formed
- Measurements
- depth 2.4 cm x height 20.5 cm x width 21.5 cm
- Dimensions museum
- depth 2.4 cm x height 20.5 cm x width 21.5 cm
Identification
- Original title
- Tegel met een vliegende vogel en bloemen
- Holding institution
- Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
- Museum object number
- BK-NM-11755
- 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.