tile
1720-1739?
LMGLM:1992.60.55
Summary: tile, blue design of shepherd and man adjusting shoe in landscape, with corner motif of barred ox head, English, from a shop in Lymington, Lymington and Pennington, Hampshire, about 1720 to 1740Identification note: These 18th century Delft tiles were discovered in the old Ford’s shop at 60 High Street, Lymington. Some may have been...
Description
Summary: tile, blue design of shepherd and man adjusting shoe in landscape, with corner motif of barred ox head, English, from a shop in Lymington, Lymington and Pennington, Hampshire, about 1720 to 1740
Identification note: These 18th century Delft tiles were discovered in the old Ford’s shop at 60 High Street, Lymington. Some may have been smuggled into the country from Holland, as there was a high tax on foreign tiles at that time to protect the English tile industry. Many Delft tiles depict bodies of water, boating and pastoral scenes.
