Tile (Fireplace or wall tile)

  • Category:

    Ceramics

  • Creator (Role):

    John Sadler (Printer)

    Robert Sayer (Design inspiration)

  • Place of Origin:

    Liverpool, Merseyside, England, United Kingdom, Europe

  • Date:

    1765-1775

  • Materials:

    Earthenware (delftware, faience); Tin glaze

  • Techniques:

    Molded, Printed, Enameled

  • Museum Object Number:

    1969.4729.025


  • Complete Details



Object Number

1969.4729.025

Object Name

Tile (Fireplace or wall tile)

Category

Ceramics

Credit Line/Donor

Bequest of Henry Francis du Pont

Creator (Role)

John Sadler (Printer)
1720-1789
See Anthony Ray, Liverpool Printed Tiles (London: Jonathan Horne Publications, 1994) pp. 1-15 for further information on Sadler and Green.

Robert Sayer (Design inspiration)
1725-02//1794
Sayer became active as a printseller as early as the late 1740s. He built up his stock of copper plates by taking over others’ inventories, first Philip Overton, then James McArdell when he died in 1765. He worked in partnership with John Bennett from around 1774 to 1785, then operated alone again through 1793. When he died in February 1794, the firm (along with Sayer’s stock of plates) were taken over by another London print firm, Laurie & Whittle.

Place of Origin

Liverpool, Merseyside, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Date

1765-1775

Subjects

Ladies Amusement

Materials

Earthenware (delftware, faience); Tin glaze

Techniques

Molded, Printed, Enameled

Dimensions (inches)

5 (H) , 5 (L)

Dimensions (centimeters)

12.7 (H) , 12.7 (L)

Object Description

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Bibliography and Bibliographic Notes

[Book] Sayer, Robert & Pillement, Jean Baptiste. 1959 Ladies Amusement or Whole Art of Japanning Made Easy (orig. c. 1760).
Design inspiration: pl. 32, source for the two figures. Published 1758-62
[Book] Ray, Anthony. 1994 Liverpool Printed Tiles.
Similar tile: p. 40, no. D4-11, c. 1765-75
[Book] Ray, Anthony. 1994 Liverpool Printed Tiles.
Earlier version of tile, with scene reversed and some detail differences: p. 26, no. B4-12, 1757-61. Also different border type. Notes Amusement as inspiration.
[Book] Archer, Michael. 1997 Delftware: The Tin-glazed Earthenware of the British Isles, a Catalogue of the Collection in the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Similar tile: p. 519, no. N.466, noting same tile also known with (painted) enamels