Description:
English delft tile decorated with a transfer printed scene in purple known as "A peasant having his tooth extracted", bordered with a rococo scroll. Both Bernard Watney and Jonathan Horne write that the scene is based on "Feeling," one of a series of five etchings of "The Five Senses" (Seeing, Hearing, Smelling, Tasting and Feeling) by Jan Both (c.1610-1652) based on compositions by his brother, Andries Both (1612/13-1642). The Wellcome Institute Library in London has a mezzotint by George Christoph Kilian (1709-1781) titled: "Eai Maister mie so grob, ach, och, a meh a gravs. Wie stelst du dich Narr, der Zarn ist gleich heraus. G. C. Kilian excudit," which is also based on Both's "Feeling." The Kilian print shows a tooth drawer extracting a tooth from a seated patient while surrounded by a crowd. This tile has the tooth puller (Dr. Lubbert), who is wearing a hat with feathers, working on a clearly uncomfortable, seated man while a woman and child look on with concern; there is a barrel with two bottles behind the dentist. This tile is an example of the early transfer printed tiles produced by John Sadler (1720-1789) who was later in partnership with Guy Green, which were printed from copper plates with individual borders. A similarly-decorated tile was found on the dining room fireplace in the house built by William Burrows (1722-1781) in Charleston, South Carolina, between 1772-1774, which is now in the collection of the Charleston Museum. An advertisement published in the "American General Gazette" in Charleston, Jan. 1-10, 1774, states that Edward Fisher and Co. of Charleston have imported tiles with "pencilled work" from Liverpool, which confirms the importation of various types of ceramics from Liverpool during this period.
Subjects:
Pottery; Enamel and enameling; glaze (coating by location) Link to share this object record:
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