Tile panel, encaustic decoration, Paris, 1874
Record status
Individual type · partial
Period
ca. 1874
Tile panel decorated with yellow fleur-de-lys on a brick coloured background, with occasional tiles of black ground in the border. These tiles, based on original prototypes, were designed for the Château d'Eu, which Viollet-le-Duc restored for the Comte de Paris from 1874. Viollet-le-Duc was a self-taught architect and designer who achieved an international reputation.
He was involved with the re-organisation of the national manufactories (which included Sèvres), with decorations for the wedding of Napoleon III in 1853 and with the restoration of many buildings, ecclesiastical and secular.
Evidence at a glance
- Linked sources
- 1
- Photograph views
- 1
- Catalogue references
- 0
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Physical characteristics
- Material
- Earthenware with encaustic decoration
- Dimensions
- Length: 41.5 in; Width: 38.75 in
Technical characteristics
- Maker recorded
- Parvillée, Léon; Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène
- Place recorded
- Paris
Identification
- Source note
- Transcribed from the Victoria and Albert Museum, London collection record for this single object (sentences kept verbatim apart from removed sale or rarity wording); how far it represents a wider collectible type has not been independently verified.
- Candidate id
- vam-O34833
- Museum object name
- Tile panel
- Holding institution
- Victoria and Albert Museum, London
- Museum object number
- 1699-1892
- Museum system number
- O34833
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
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