JVV 0609
Utrecht, 1825-1850
The twelve-part tile picture is four tiles high and three tiles wide, and is painted in polychrome with a bouquet of flowers in a flower vase on a stepped, marbled plinth. The bouquet includes carnations, irises, imperial crowns, peonies, marigolds and a lapwing flower. The flower vase, executed in a classicist manner, stands on a waisted foot and has a cylindrical-shaped body with recessed panels all around. A garland of green leaves is attached to the flower vase. The border decor is integrated into the picture.
Dimensions: height 54 cm / 21.25 in., width 40 cm / 15.74 in., thickness 3,2 cm / 1.25 in.
The tile picture is mounted on wood in a brass frame.
Condition: two chips to two tiles restored.
Explanatory note
Tile pictures with flower vases were made in Dutch tile factories throughout the eighteenth and much of the nineteenth century. Tile pictures were often used in fireplaces, both in the lower part where the fire was and in the bosom above the mantle. Smaller tile pictures of four or six tiles were often incorporated symmetrically into tiled walls. Apart from flower vases, dogs, cats, horses, cows and birdcages were also depicted in such walls.
