Ceramic Tile Art

A diverse collection of decorative ceramic tiles depicting scenes of daily life and mythological figures with intricate hand-painted designs.

Scene tile, in double curved octagon, scaffold with man, corner motif quarter rosette, wall tile tile sculpture ceramic earthenware glaze, baked 2x glazed painted Purple on white in double curved octagon.

Figure tile, figure with tulip, wall tile tile sculpture ceramic earthenware glaze, baked 2x glazed painted Blue on white.

Scene tile, walking shepherd with staff and sheep, corner motif carnation, wall tile tile sculpture ceramic earthenware glaze, baked 2x glazed painted Sprinkled purple tile in circle with lobed edge shepherd

Scene tile, in double curved octagon, scaffold with man, corner motif quarter rosette, wall tile tile sculpture ceramic earthenware glaze, baked 2x glazed painted Purple on white in double curved octagon.

Sea creature tile, man with crown and fish tail, bird in one hand, in water to the left, in blue on white, corner motif, ox-head, wall tile tile sculpture ceramic earthenware glaze, baked 2x glazed painted mythology

Sultan Murat III and supreme court of Ottoman Empire; Equestrian series. Two prints on a leaf, with German caption and Latin inscription. Left: horse and rider to the left. The horse is in step. The rider is Sultan Murat III. He has an Ottoman robe and has a scepter in hand. Right: horse and rider to the left. The horse is in step. The rider is dressed as an Ottoman judge. Around an ornamental frame.

Vexierbild, Napoleon, laid out on St, Helena, Unknown

Scene tile, blue with landscape with gate with columns and tympanum, behind it house, corner motif spider, wall tile tile sculpture ceramic earthenware glaze, baked 2x glazed painted

Animal tile, flying bird to the left above water, in the background vegetation, in blue on white, corner motif spider, wall tile tile sculpture ceramic earthenware glaze, baked 2x glazed painted

Figure tile, float or soldier with horn and spear, blue decor on white ground, baluster with French lilies, marked, wall tile tile sculpture ceramic earthenware glaze tin glaze, baked 2x glazed painted Yellow shard Enamelled earthenware. Slightly slanted sides. Blue decor on white fond. Soldier blowing on horn in his left hand spear. Baluster ornament with French lilies In blue paint on the back: ID or JD probably the signature is not complete militaria Rotterdam Stadscentrum Stadsdriehoek Zandstraat Originating from the Zandstraat Rotterdam area.

Scene tile, blue, with landscape containing two men and beehive with swarming bees, corner pattern spider, wall tile tile sculpture ceramic earthenware glaze, baked 2x glazed painted

This miracle work is very well known / is depicted in this print (...), 1767-1793 print Leaf with a large performance about the Sardammer Taurus. Bottom left the bull Boer Jacob Egh, farmer Trijn Jans flies above them, who loses her child. On the right a boy with a kite and behind it finishing the bull. The whole is caught in a decorative frame of flower vines. Numbered at the top right: *10. Amsterdampublisher: Amsterdamprint maker: Netherlands paper letterpress printing bull. farmers. tales and fairy tales: Savagery of the Bull

Figure tile, purple sprinkled tile, shepherd with staff and sheep, corner motif heart, wall tile tile sculpture ceramic earthenware glaze, baked 2x glazed painted sprinkled yellow shard square two nail holes. Two-tone: blue painted and purple sprinkled on white fond. Shepherd with staff and hat on standing in landscape with two sheep arcadia shepherd

White tile with blue flying putto with laurel wreath, ox-head in the corners, wall tile tile sculpture ceramic earthenware glaze, baked 2x glazed painted

Figure tile, shepherd with staff on the shoulder, wall tile tile sculpture ceramic earthenware glaze, baked 2x glazed painted Flecked purple tile in white cruciform cutout blue medallion shepherd

Figure tile, in blue on white, warrior with rifle, wall tile tile sculpture ceramics pottery glaze, baked 2x glazed painted Rough square three nail holes. Blue on white long distance Jacob de Gheyn militia army militaria

White tile with blue horseman in armor with lance; corner pattern ox head, wall tile tile sculpture ceramic earthenware glaze, baked 2x glazed painted

A red chalk drawing by Sébastien Le Clerc showing a flying goddess of victory with circular edging and horizontal lines in black, glued with cannons on blue composition paper, around 1702.

Figure tile, blue with running man with his hat taking off as greeting, corner motif of ox's head, wall tile tile sculpture ceramic earthenware glaze, baked 2x glazed painted

Scene tile, double child's play, children fighting, Corner motif ox's head, wall tile tile sculpture ceramic earthenware glaze, baked 2x glazed painted Blue on white fight

Scene tile, blue with landscape with fortress, in the background church, corner motif spider, wall tile tile sculpture ceramic earthenware glaze, baked 2x glazed painted

Scene tile, double child's play, hopping, corner motif spider, wall tile tile sculpture ceramic earthenware enamel tinglage, in form made baked glazed painted baked Blue on white hopping

Border tile, blue on white, garland with tassels, above which flower tendril with two tulips and other flower, vertically symmetrical, border tile wall tile tile sculpture ceramic earthenware glaze, baked 2x glazed painted

Scene tile, blue with landscape with castle with square towers, corner pattern spider, wall tile tile sculpture ceramic earthenware glaze, baked 2x glazed painted

White tile with blue warrior with spear, seen from behind; corner pattern ox head, wall tile tile sculpture ceramic earthenware glaze, baked 2x glazed painted militaria

Lazio Roma Rome Tomb of the Valerii2. Hutzel, Max 1960-1990 German-born photographer and scholar Max Hutzel (1911-1988) photographed in Italy from the early 1960s until his death. The result of this project, referred to by Hutzel as Foto Arte Minore, is thorough documentation of art historical development in Italy up to the 18th century, including objects of the Etruscans and the Romans, as well as early Medieval, Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque monuments. Images are organized by geographic region in Italy, then by province, city, site complex and monument.

Scene tile, child's play, child with toy animal On rope, corner pattern ox head, wall tile tile sculpture ceramic earthenware glaze, baked 2x glazed painted Blue on white.

British art nouveau fan design on silk by Frank Conder.. Color plate from Charles Holme's "Modern Design in Jewellery and Fans," published by the Studio 1902.

White tile with blue fishing putto, wall tile tile sculpture ceramic earthenware glaze, baked 2x glazed painted

Figure tile, blue with pointing man, between balusters with French lily, wall tile tile sculpture ceramic earthenware glaze, baked 2x glazed painted

Scene tile, tower with houses, corner motif spider, wall tile tile sculpture ceramic earthenware glaze, baked 2x glazed painted Purple tile on white background, on plaster 2.

Scene tile, blue with landscape with house with plume of smoke, between balusters, corner motif lily, wall tile tile sculpture ceramic earthenware glaze, baked 2x glazed painted

Plate, cartouch -shaped, multi -colored painted with a horn blowing man, anonymous, c. 1740 - c. 1780 Plate of Faïence, cartouch -shaped. Multicolored painted with a horn blowing man. Delft . Plate of Faïence, cartouch -shaped. Multicolored painted with a horn blowing man. Delft .

Animal tile, flying butterfly above continuous ground, right three sailing ships in the background, in blue on white, corner motif spider, wall tile tile sculpture ceramic earthenware glaze, baked 2x glazed painted

White tile with two blue warriors with spears; corner pattern ox head, wall tile tile sculpture ceramics pottery glaze, baked 2x glazed painted militaria

White tile with blue flying putto; corner pattern ox head, wall tile tile sculpture ceramic earthenware glaze, baked 2x glazed painted

Ornament tile, central decor, purple tamponised surface infill in blue outline and white corners, wall tile tile footage soil finds ceramic earthenware glaze, baked 2x glazed painted Red shard square two nail holes. Purple on white and blue frame archeology

Field of two tiles with hunter and animal, anonymous, c. 1620 - c. 1640 Field of two tiles (1 x 2) each with a blue painted animal or hunter within a circle band with zigzag motif. In the corners, a lily. Netherlands earthenware. tin glaze majolica Field of two tiles (1 x 2) each with a blue painted animal or hunter within a circle band with zigzag motif. In the corners, a lily. Netherlands earthenware. tin glaze majolica

Seated Ruler in the Guise of the Maize God. Guatemala, Southern Lowlands, Maya, 300-600 CE. Ceramics. Polychrome ceramic

Animal tile with dog in scalloped frame, blue decor on white background, corner filling with meanders, wall tile tile sculpture ceramic earthenware glaze tin glaze, in form made baked glazed painted baked Wall tile with blue decor on white background. Animal turtle with jumping dog in scalloped frame The dog wears collar with loose leash the dog is completely speckled. brown-red shard Scraped and laminated pottery. Corner filling meanders Slightly sloping sides of indigenous pottery

Scene tile, blue with landscape with castle ruin, corner pattern spider, wall tile tile sculpture ceramic earthenware glaze, baked 2x glazed painted

Occupation tile, blue with standing man with wheelbarrow, corner motif of ox's head, wall tile tile sculpture ceramic earthenware glaze, baked 2x glazed painted

Arabian Op Kameel and Indian Ruiter, Abraham de Bruyn, 1576 - 1596 print Two prints on a magazine, with German caption and Latin inscription. Left: Camel and rider to the left. The animal is in step. His driver is an Arab man. Around an ornamental frame. Right: horse and rider to the left. The horse stands still. The rider comes from Narsinga, in India. He has a spear in his hands and wears a shield on the back. Around an ornamental frame. Cologne paper engraving warfare; military affairs (+ cavalry, horsemen). folk costume, regional costume. military clothing and other equipment (uniforms, cap, armour, helmet, etc.)

Occupation tile, blue with an image of woman with high basket of bread On the back, stick in the hand, corner motif of ox's head, wall tile tile sculpture ceramic earthenware glaze, baked 2x glazed painted

George Sand Blue Room Tapestry Fragment Tapestry fragment of George Sand's blue room, Nohant. Paris, museum of romantic life.

Scene tile, child's play, koot, corner motif ox's head, wall tile tile sculpture ceramics earthenware glaze tin glaze hw 12.8, in form made baked glazed painted baked Blue on white Rotterdam City triangle Zandstraat koten kootspel Originating from the demolition of houses on Zandstraat Rotterdam.

Aalmis, Cartouchetegel with sailing ship and figure with banner, corner motif, quarter rosette, wall tile tile sculpture ceramic earthenware glaze, baked 2x glazed painted Yellow shard square two nail holes. Purple on white ground Aalmis Aelmis family Magito circus

White tile with blue warrior, standard wharf; corner pattern ox head, wall tile tile sculpture ceramic earthenware glaze, baked 2x glazed painted militaria

White tile with blue warrior with lance and shield; corner pattern ox head, wall tile tile sculpture ceramic earthenware glaze, baked 2x glazed painted militaria

Scene tile, child's play, child on stilts, corner motif ox's head, wall tile tile sculpture ceramics pottery glaze tin glaze, in shape made baked glazed painted baked Blue on white stalks

Scene tile with house, blue decor on white ground, corner fill: ox head, wall tile tile sculpture ceramic earthenware glaze tin glaze, in form made baked glazed painted baked Wall tile with blue decor on white background. Scene tile with central representation of house in polder landscape At the house long curved object beacon or beacon without details Yellow shard. Corner filling: ox head. Scraped earthenware Slightly sloping sides of indigenous earthenware

Figure tile, blue with beggar without lower legs, holds his hat, corner motif spider, wall tile tile sculpture ceramic earthenware glaze, baked 2x glazed painted beggar

Hans von Aachen, Allegory on the Turkish Wars, c 1600 Allegory on the Turkish Wars

French earthenware. Abundance dish Bernard Palissy (1510-1589). Flat of abundance. Black and white projection plate. 1900-1930. French earthenware. Photograph of Jacques-Ernest Bulloz (1858-1942).

Tile of tile picture blue, white ground, two contiguous biblical scenes, part battle with Roman soldiers, lower body man and tent, feet two men, bottom, tile picture footage fragment earth discovery ceramics pottery glaze tin glaze, Tile panel blue white ground parts of two consecutive biblical scenes: 1-2 battle with Roman soldiers on horseback 3-6 men behind curtain soldier and child 7 Roman soldiers on horseback part left side edge with open balls 8-9 upper edge of men behind curtain and helmet plume of soldier and child corner tile of edge 10 curtain section 11 right corner of stairs and soldier with child 12-14 part battle with Roman soldiers lower body man and tent feet two men bottom 15 part battle with Roman soldiers bottom of pieces cloth 16-18 floral pattern and part floor or air written in red chalk 6 militaria archeology bible religion child murder Bethlehem

Animal tile with jumping dog, blue decor on white ground, corner filling: lily and baluster frame, wall tile tile sculpture ceramic earthenware glaze tin glaze, in form made baked glazed painted baked Wall tile with blue decor on white background. Animal tile with dog jumping to the left on piece of land. Corner filling: lily and baluster frame. wugeele shard. Shaved and highly layered earthenware Slightly sloping sides. On the back practice drawing In blue paint on the back: some leaf or wing motifs exercise drawing indigenous pottery

Tile with warrior with musket in standard and pipe-smashing, corner motif of ox-head, wall tile tile sculpture ceramic earthenware glaze, baked 2x glazed painted Yellow shard square. Blue on white background Tile with pipe-smoking warrior with musket in standard Anglo-styled ox-headed militaria

Lazio Viterbo Caprarola Palazzo Farnese3. Hutzel, Max 1960-1990 German-born photographer and scholar Max Hutzel (1911-1988) photographed in Italy from the early 1960s until his death. The result of this project, referred to by Hutzel as Foto Arte Minore, is thorough documentation of art historical development in Italy up to the 18th century, including objects of the Etruscans and the Romans, as well as early Medieval, Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque monuments. Images are organized by geographic region in Italy, then by province, city, site complex and monument.

Profession tile, blue with running man, corner motif voluut, wall tile tile sculpture ceramic earthenware glaze, baked 2x glazed painted

Scene tile, blue with landscape with house with shed, corner pattern spider, wall tile tile sculpture ceramic earthenware glaze, baked 2x glazed painted

Scene tile, sailing boats and tower, corner pattern French lily, wall tile tile sculpture ceramic earthenware glaze, baked 2x glazed painted sprinkled Yellow shard square two or three nail holes Central decor blue on white fond in circle with scalloped frame purple sprinkled.

White tile with blue warrior; corner pattern ox head, wall tile tile sculpture ceramic earthenware glaze, baked 2x glazed painted militaria

Blue tile with bunch of grapes and leaf of pilaster with 39 tiles, tree of bunches of grapes among which birds, insects, tile pilaster footage fragment ceramic earthenware glaze, in black paint W 35.

Field of four tiles with sea creatures, anonymous, c. 1650 - c. 1700 Field of four tiles (2 x 2) each with a blue and purple painter d sea creature with in the corners, a spider. Harlingen (possibly) earthenware. tin glaze majolica Field of four tiles (2 x 2) each with a blue and purple painter d sea creature with in the corners, a spider. Harlingen (possibly) earthenware. tin glaze majolica

Ontwerp voor een hoekstuk van plafond met personificatie van de Gerechtigheid. Vier delen van een plafondontwerp met personificaties (series title). Draughtsman: Mattheus Terwesten. Intermediary draughtsman: Augustinus Terwesten (I). Dating: 1680 - 1757. Measurements: h 472 mm × w 471 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Platter from Faenza, Italy, Renaissance maiolica ware with portrait of a young man inside a border of gold foliage. Hand-finished chromolithograph from Ris Paquot's General History of Ancient French and Foreign Glazed Pottery, Chez l'Auteur, Paris, 1874.

Tile- New Testament Scene, c 1600- 1700s. Holland / Netherlands, Delft, 17th- 18th century. Glazed ceramic; overall: 12.7 x 12.7 cm (5 x 5 in.).

Scene tile, inside double circle, city wall with tower, mill and house, corner motif oxen head, wall tile tile sculpture ceramic earthenware glaze, baked 2x glazed painted Purple tile on white background inside double circle.

England's Hope, Medium: silk Technique: printed by engraved plate on plain weave, Silk scarf with a family portrait of Queen Victoria, Prince Albert, and eight of their nine children. Yellow border., England, ca. 1855, printed, dyed & painted textiles, Scarf, Scarf

Tile of chimney pilaster, blue on white, part of up and down continuous representation with fruits, including pomegranate and grapes, and branches, chimney pilaster tile pilaster footage fragment ceramic earthenware glaze, baked 2x glazed painted

Design for a Bookplate of the University of Warsaw Library. Spiczyński, W. (18..-19..), draughtsman, cartoonist

Scene tile, blue with landscape with castle with round pointed towers, corner pattern spider, wall tile tile sculpture ceramic earthenware glaze, baked 2x glazed painted

Animal tile, flying fish in water, blue, corner motif ox head, wall tile tile sculpture ceramic earthenware glaze tinglage, in form made baked glazed painted baked Blue on white

Occupation tile, blue with man with cap and round tubes or bars on the back, corner motif oxen head, wall tile tile sculpture ceramic earthenware glaze wood, baked 2x glazed painted

Scene tile, double child's play, koten, wall tile tile sculpture ceramic earthenware glaze, baked 2x glazed painted Blue on white sock kitchens

Tile field, three tiles, blue on white, animal in circle, with quarter rosette, saving technique, tile field wall tile tile sculpture ceramic earthenware glaze, baked 2x glazed painted

Textile, The Four Seasons; England; linen warp, cotton weft; Warp x Weft: 176 x 79 cm (5 ft. 9 5/16 in. x 31 1/8 in.); Bequest of Elinor Merrell; 1995-50-110

Perroquets, aigle, bois sculpté. Cygnes et iris, porte en bois sculpté.. Verneuil, M. P. (Maurice Pillard), 1869-1942. Prints. 1897. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Art & Architecture Collection. Decoration and ornament , Animal forms

A color woodcut by Lucien Pissarro showing a lady with her servants, printed on Chinese paper with gold accents using color cutting techniques.

The Four Seasons, Medium: linen warp, cotton weft Technique: printed by engraved plate on plain weave, Four scenes of a male and a female figure in a rural setting. Each scene represents one of the four seasons. Each scene is separated by a tree. In black on white., England, 1770-80, printed, dyed & painted textiles, Textile, Textile

Scene tile, kneeling Tobias pulls fish from river, corner motif ox's head, wall tile tile sculpture ceramic earthenware glaze, baked 2x glazed painted Yellow shard square three nail holes. Purple on white fond Bible religion

Tile, blue on white, outdoor, man with three cows, sheep and goat on pasture by river, rowing boat with person on the water, background houses and trees, in the distance sailing ships, tile picture footage fragment ceramics pottery glaze, baked 2x glazed painted Yellow shard square nail holes blue on white fond variant on Pluis.03.01.11, in black paint V111.

Animal tile, barking dog to the left inside scalloped frame with braces, in blue on white, corner motif meanders, wall tile tile footage ceramic earthenware glaze, baked 2x glazed painted Rotterdam Hillegersberg-Schiebroek Hillegersberg Zuid Clay road Bellevue Originating from Huize Bellevue on the Kleiweg.

Sidewall (France); block-printed on joined sheets of handmade paper; 74 x 47.5 cm (29 1/8 x 18 11/16 in.)

White tile with blue putto, wall tile tile sculpture ceramic earthenware glaze, baked 2x glazed painted

White tile with blue warrior; corner pattern ox head, wall tile tile sculpture ceramic earthenware glaze, baked 2x glazed painted militaria

Scene tile, blue with landscape with bridge with two fishermen, corner pattern spider, wall tile tile sculpture ceramic earthenware glaze, baked 2x glazed painted

Scene tile, child's play, child with windmill, corner motif ox's head, wall tile tile sculpture ceramic earthenware glaze, baked 2x glazed painted Blue on white.

Design for ceiling decoration. Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash on lined off-white laid paper. Date: 1746-1809. Museum: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.

Five multi-colored tableau tiles (blue, yellow) with putto under ornament arch, tile picture material fragment ceramic earthenware glaze, baked 2x glazed painted numbered: A1-A5.

Children are playing cricket with a bat and ball, others are skipping in the background. Etching by H. Gravelot.

Figure tile, kneeling man with rosary, corner motif spider, wall tile tile sculpture ceramic earthenware glaze, baked 2x glazed painted Tile blue on white religion

'The Chase', c1513-1553. Artist: Augustin Hirschvogel

Figures Near the Ruins of a Corinthian Temple (recto); Fragment of an Arch (tracing from recto) (verso), first half 1700s. Andrea Locatelli (Italian, 1695-1741). Brush and black and gray wash, over traces of black chalk; framing lines in black chalk, and brown ink (iron gall); sheet: 32.1 x 16.9 cm (12 5/8 x 6 5/8 in.); image: 30.4 x 15 cm (11 15/16 x 5 7/8 in.).

Erwin Schwabe, Plate, c 1936 Plate

. Porcelain oval plaque, painted on the glaze in blue, red, pink, green, yellow, purple, brown, black and gold. The performance shows a Chinese lady at a table with objects. The boy holds a mirror in which the lady looks at herself. In addition to them comes a servant with a tray, behind her a dog. In the background a cupboard with valuables and objects of a scholar. On the terrace a banana plant and a rock. To the terrace a pond with two Peking utilities. Original gold plated list. Porcelain with email colors.

Field of four tiles with people and their activities. Four tiles (2 x 2) each with a blue painted man and his activities with in the corners, a winger.

Figure tile, blue with skating lady with millstone collar seen from behind, corner motif oxen head, wall tile tile sculpture ceramic earthenware glaze, baked 2x glazed painted skating winter

Hat Box. Dated: 1935/1942. Dimensions: overall: 46.5 x 39.6 cm (18 5/16 x 15 9/16 in.) Original IAD Object: 17 1/2" long; 13 3/4" wide; 11 1/4" deep. Medium: watercolor, graphite, and gouache on paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Frank McEntee.

Les Vendanges, Jean-Baptiste Marie Huet, (French, 1745-1811), Medium: cotton Technique: printed by engraved copper plate on plain weave, Panel of cotton printed in red showing a design of women harvesting grapes; country folk dancing and courting; a man on the ground holding a bottle and a man beating a drum in front of an inn, with vessels of wine around him., Jouy, France, 1785, printed, dyed & painted textiles, Textile, Textile

Drawing, Design for Trivet, Prancing Horse; Designed by William Hunt Diederich (American, b. Hungary, 1884-1953); USA; graphite on tracing paper; 15.5 x 15.7 cm (6 1/8 x 6 3/16 in.)

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