Wandtegelveld, 13x2

English

Twenty-six tiles Dutch Delft Blue and White tiles in a walnut frame. Each tile painted with colfing scenes, the corners of each with scrolls, the frame applied with ivorine label inscribed 'Old Dutch tiles illustrating the game of colf and as played on ice about the middle of the 17th Century', and a further tile similarly decorated, unframed. Five tiles with restored sections, some in-filling flaking and glaze crazing.

13,5 x 71,5 inches (34,3 x 181,6 cm)

Provenance

The panel from the Harry B. Wood Collection.

Literature

 Jan Pluis, The Dutch Tile, Design and names 1570-1930, Leiden, 1998, no. 27, pp. 109 & 126 for a series of similar sporting tiles.

Source

Cataloque 'The Jaime Ortiz-Patino Collection' Origins of Golf, London, Wednesday 30 May 2012, Christies. Expected yield: £ 7,000-10,000 (US$ 11,000-15,000; € 7,900-11,000). Price realized £ 16,250 (US$ 25,350)