Figure 11 Tiles, Holland. Delftware. Left: Ca. 1640–1660. 5.11" x 5.11" x .39". The mermaid (Salacia?) shown on this tile suckles her merchild in a billowing sea. The clay is pale pink and beveled at the edges; two pinholes are set 1.02" in from the oxhead corners. Center: Ca. 1640–1660. 4.92" x 4.92" (thickness obscured by a frame). In this example a merman (Neptune?) endeavors to house-train his pup in a sea drawn in short blue dashes overlaid with darker hatching. This is a rare instance wherein the figure was drawn separately and the sea kept separate by a row of small dots and hooks. The tile has four pinholes set .78" in from the poorly defined oxhead corners. Right: Ca. 1690–1720. 4.88" x 4.88" x .39". A merperson of uncertain gender holds a small animal—perhaps a piglet—while reacting to a winged Nereid offering a diadem, all on a modified chevron sea. Compare the linear and cartoonlike treatment of the piscine body with that of the tile at far left, in which the scales were carefully drawn before applying the secondary wash. The bluish gray glazing is over a yellow body; spider corners, with two pinholes near beveled edges
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