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| Figure 10 Tiles, Holland. Delftware. Left: Ca. 1650–1700. 4.92" x 4.92" x .39". A Triton is depicted with his windblown, elderly wife, who reaches for an unidentified object in a diagonal sea. The clay body is yellow with beveled edges, the glaze blue-tinted and somewhat crazed. There are spider corners with two inset pinholes. Right: Ca. 1640–1670. 5" x 5" x .47". The subject—a Triton kissing an unresponsive mermaid in a diagonal sea—is painted in an unusually dark blue color, augmented with a lighter wash. Two pinholes are inset .67" from spider corners. The clay body is pale pink with a yellowish gray glaze, which, like the tile illustrated at left, is crazed in the top right corner. |