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Lot 1003 - A200 Decorative Arts - Thursday, 31. March 2022, 10.00 AM

RARE, RELIEF-DECORATED SPANISH TILE

Catalonia, probably Barcelona, ca. 1450.
Square tile depicting a grotesque, two-legged half-man wearing Gothic boots, holding a shield with a black mask in front of him. Unglazed and with traces of paintwork in red, white and black.
40 × 40 × 4 cm.

Damage and losses to the paintwork.

Provenance:
Private collection, Switzerland.

Only a few tiles from the same mold can be mentioned for comparative purposes: One example in the collection of the Museo Episcopal Vich near Barcelona (Andrés Batillori Munné, Ceramica Catalana Decorada, Barcelona 1949, Ill.4 ), a second in the Forrer Collection, now in the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Dortmund (Robert Forrer, Geschichte der europäischen Fliesenkeramik vom Mittelalter bis zum Jahre 1900, Strasbourg 1901, Ill. XXVII) and a third formerly in the collection of John Philip Kassebaum, see Sotheby's London, 7 October 1992, Lot No. 128.

This tile, together with the above-mentioned comparative items, was probably part of a ceiling in a Catalan palace. The heavy tiles were embedded in a wooden frame. Other ceiling tiles from this period and this region with a different decoration are very rare (R. Forrer 1901,pp. 19-20; Anthony Ray, Spanish Pottery 1248-1898, 2000, p. 309 and Note 7).


CHF 2 000 / 3 000 | (€ 2 060 / 3 090)