SPANISH CERAMICS 28l
- Tile Floor
(?) Manises, circa 1425-1450
Tin-glazed earthenware
Speratens and ne oblyer inscribed in the hex
agonal tiles: a coat of arms, ofbarry of six
argent and gules, painted on the square tiles.
Length: 7 ft. i^34 in. (220 cm); Width: 3 ft.
67 A in. (no cm); Square Tiles: Length:
4 %6 in. to 47 /s in. (11.2 to 12.4 cm);
Hexagonal Tiles: Length: 8 % in. to 8 9 /i6 in.
(21 to 21.8 cm); Width: 4% in. to 4^3 /s in.
(10.8 to 11.ι cm)
Accession number 84 .DE.747
PROVENANCE
Grassi collection, Florence, before 1920;
Ruth and Leopold Blumka, New York.
EXHIBITIONS
Allentown Art Museum, Beyond Nobility:
Art for the Private Citizen in the Early
Renaissance, September 1980-January 1981,
no. 122, pp. 115-116.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Anna Berendsen et al., Tiles (London, 1967),
p. 76; "Acquisitions/1984," GettyMus)ri3
(1985), no. 151, p. 239, illus; Hess, Maiolica,
no. ι, pp. 12-13.
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