Tile panel, tin-glazed earthenware, Lisbon, ca. 1720-1730
Record status
Individual type · partial
Period
ca. 1720-1730
In the 17th and 18th centuries, numerous monumental tiling schemes were executed for convents, churches and palaces in Portugal. Typically painted in blue, these would cover huge areas of church walls as well as their barrel-vaulted ceilings. In palaces and grand houses tilework formed a continuous dado around grand rooms, along corridors and up staircases.
This panel was part of such a scheme in the Music Room of the Quinta Formosa in Lisbon. Its exuberant decoration is typical, with figurative scenes set within a framework of trompe l'oeil pilasters, caryatids and other architectural ornament.
Evidence at a glance
- Linked sources
- 1
- Photograph views
- 4
- Catalogue references
- 0
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Historical context
Purchased as a group, with C.48-53-1973, from Solar-Albuquerque & Sousa, Rua D. Pedro V 70, 1250-094 LISBOA ( São José ). According to the vendor they came from the 'Music Room of the Quinta Formosa, Lisbon'.
Physical characteristics
- Material
- Tin-glaze earthenware, painted in blue
- Dimensions
- Height: 140 cm; Length: 389 cm
Technical characteristics
- Place recorded
- Lisbon
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-O94332
- Museum object name
- Tile panel
- Holding institution
- Victoria and Albert Museum, London
- Museum object number
- C.48-1973
- Museum system number
- O94332
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: confirm the wider type, maker and dating against a specialist reference; this entry documents one recorded example.