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Kitchen tile panel with a family scene

UnknownEnd 18th century

Museo Nacional de Ceramica y Artes suntuarias Gonzalez Marti de Valencia

Museo Nacional de Ceramica y Artes suntuarias Gonzalez Marti de Valencia
Valencia, Spain

Tile panel with white tin glaze background and polychrome decoration where a family in a kitchen scene is represented. The characters, dressed in the fashion of the time of king Charles IV, are placed around a central table (three women, two men and one child). In the back wall are hung all kinds of pots, oil lamps, pitchers, bellows, a garlic string and a skinned ram. Some verses explain the chores of every character and the date of manufacture. Workshop from the town of Valencia, probably the Faure factory. Dated 1789.

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  • Title: Kitchen tile panel with a family scene
  • Creator: Unknown
  • Date Created: End 18th century
  • Original Tittle: Panel de azulejos con una escena familiar
  • Object Notes: Panel de azulejos de fondo blanco estannífero y decoración policroma en el que se representa una escena familiar en la cocina. Los personajes, vistiendo la moda de la época de Carlos IV, rodean una mesa central (tres mujeres, dos hombres y un niño). De la pared del fondo cuelgan todo tipo de cacharros, candiles, jarras, un fuelle, ristras de ajos y un carnero desollado. Unos versos explican el quehacer de cada personaje y la fecha de realización. Taller de la ciudad de Valencia, probablemente de la fábrica Faure. Fechado en 1789.
  • Type: Ceramics
  • External Link: CERES
Museo Nacional de Ceramica y Artes suntuarias Gonzalez Marti de Valencia

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