Animals

Whale with two blowholes
The Netherlands
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…
€ 325,⁰⁰
Crab
The Netherlands
1650 - 1675Tile with a nice large painting of a Crab.
€ 350,⁰⁰
Tulip and butterfly
The Netherlands
1625 - 1650A finely painted tile with tulip with a butterfly on its leaf.
Painted in many different colours.With oxheads as corner decoration.
€ 450,⁰⁰
Cat and Dog, dated 1756
The Netherlands
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…
€ 600,⁰⁰
Happy Dog
The Netherlands
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.
€ 600,⁰⁰
SOLD
Quadrant tile with squirrel monkey
The Netherlands
1580 - 1610A rare quadrant or kwadraat tile with decoration of a squirrel monkey, with his paw on a ball.
Beautiful bright colors!Ex. collection J.W.N. van Achterbergh.
Arion on the dolphin
The Netherlands
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…
€ 275,⁰⁰
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Ice Bear
The Netherlands
1600 - 1620A rare so-called kwadraat (quadrant) tile with the decoration of an Ice Bear.
Images of Ice Bears on tiles are rare and mostly painted in shades of blue and white or greyish and white.
Painted in nice…
SOLD
Squirrel
The Netherlands
1600 - 1620A rare so-called kwadraat (quadrant) tile with the decoration of a squirrel.
Painted in nice deep shades of orange, green, and blue.
SOLD
Boar
The Netherlands
1600 - 1620A rare and fine polychrome tile with boar painted within an orange circle.
Wonderful bright collors!
SOLD
Crocodile
The Netherlands
1630 - 1650A rare tile with a painting of a crocodile.
Decorated with candelabras at the sides and French lilies as corner decoration.
SOLD
Alpaca
The Netherlands
Antwerp?
1590 - 1610A very rare tile with the decoration of an alpaca.
Wonderfull early and thick execution.
This type of tile is one of the first figurative tiles made in The Netherlands.
SOLD
Bird
The Netherlands
1600 - 1620A very rare quadrant or diamond tile with the decoration of a primitive painted bird.
Wonderful early execution.
This type of tile is one of the first figurative tiles made in The Netherlands.
SOLD
Unicorn
The Netherlands
1630 - 1650A fine blue and white tile with jumping unicorn
In a so-called accolade border