The Netherlands
Circa 1620 - 1640A rare tile with painting of a large butterfly above a plant, probably a butterfly bush.
With French lilies as corner decoration.Images like these are very hard to find.

The Netherlands
Circa 1620 - 1640A rare tile with painting of a large butterfly on a branch with leaves and berries.
Painted within a circle with oxheads as corner decoration.Images like these are very hard to find.

The Netherlands
Circa 1620 - 1640A rare tile with painting of large flowers and a large insect.
The fly or bee is wonderfully painted in a primitive way.
With French lilies as corner decoration.Images like these are very hard to…

The Netherlands
Circa 1630 - 1660A fine and beautiful tile with a decoration of a large butterfly on a little branch with leaves.
With oxheads as corner decoration.

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Rotterdam
Circa 1620 - 1640A full painted tile with decoration of an elephant between two plant. A realistic elephant walking towards us.
All of this, painted within a Wanli border.

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Circa 1630 - 1660A quite unusual painting of a butterfly above a little plant.
With oxheads as corner decoration.

The Netherlands
Circa 1630 - 1660A polychrome tile with unusual decoration of a butterfly above a plant.
Painted in a circle with Wanli style corner decoration.

The Netherlands
Circa 1630 - 1660A polychrome tile with unusual decoration of a butterfly above a plant.
Painted in a circle with oxheads as corner decoration.

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Gouda
Circa 1625 - 1650A tile decorated with a large dragonfly on a plant. A bold and strong execution.
With French lilies as corner decoration.

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Hoorn
Circa 1625 - 1650A beautiful Wanli style with a painting of a blue hare on a green hill.

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Circa 1620 - 1640A nice and thick tile with an unusual decoration of probably a Shoebill Stork, or another flightless bird, otherwise it must be a Dinosaur!

The painting on the tile is a little flowed, because of…

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Circa 1610 - 1640A nice quadrant tile with a decoration of a greyhound.

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Harlingen
Circa 1620A nice and thick tile with a decoration of a bull painted in a quadrant.
With Renaissance style corners.

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Circa 1625 - 1650A beautiful tile with a graceful rearing unicorn.
Painted within a candelabra border.

Nederland
Circa 1630 - 1660A fine blue and white tile with a decoration of a rearing grey horse.

Painted within a candelabra border.

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Circa 1620 - 1640A nice tile with a decoration of a unicorn.
Painted with thick and large oxheads as corner decoration.

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Circa 1630 - 1660A nice tile with a decoration of the Dutch lion with his paw on the globe.
The meaning of this image is the Dutch global power in the 17th century.With oxheads as corner decoration.

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Rotterdam? - Gorinchem?
Circa 1630 - 1650A nice thick tile with a decoration of a panther, unusual decoration!
​With oxheads as corner decoration.

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Rotterdam? - Gorinchem?
Circa 1630 - 1650A nice thick tile with a decoration of a monkey, unusual decoration!
With oxheads as corner decoration.

Probably English;
Londen, Altgate, c. 1571-1615/20,
or Southwark, Pickleherring, c. 1618-1630. When I bought this tile it was heavily restored and overpainted. I started to remove the overpaint and discovered that the tile was…

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Rotterdam
1625 - 1650A rare Rotterdam open-air tile with a panther, an exotic tile!
Wonderful large painting.

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1625 - 1650A fair tile with the painting of a galloping horse or foal.
Painted with a lot of movement between four big oxheads as corner decoration.

Polychrome animals in this setting are rare to find.

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Antwerp or Middelburg
1580 - 1610A fine and thick quadrant or diamond tile with a painting of a dog with a collar.

Minimal superficial glaze chips.

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1660 - 1690A rare tile with a whale, with two blowholes. A nice 17th century time frame, from the period people did not know jet what a whale actually looked like.

This tile is framed. Normally I would remove the…

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1650 - 1675Tile with a nice large painting of a Crab.

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1625 - 1650A finely painted tile with tulip with a butterfly on its leaf.
Painted in many different colours.With oxheads as corner decoration.

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Rotterdam
1756Two rare tiles with the decoration of a cat and a dog, on a marble floor, between the curtains.
Normally we see the kind of decorations on tile panels, not on single tiles.Also very rare about this…

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1600 - 1620A good and early quadrant tile with the decoration of a very happy dog, with his tongue out of his mouth.

With palmet corners painted in reverse technic.

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1630 - 1650A blue and white tile with the decoration of Arion on the Dolphin, a ancient Greek legend of a young Corinthian musician who, having won a gold prize for his singing, is thrown overboard by greedy…