Category Archives: Tiles

The Babel Tower Brickworks

Posted on July 17, 2018 by Oliver Kent

Tower of Babel. Joos de Momper, Antwerp c.1600. Oil on canvas. 175cm x 249cm. Musee Royaux des Beaux Art, Brussels. (Wikipedia Commons) Whilst at the Medieval Pottery Research Group conference in Brussels at the beginning of June some of us … Continue reading →

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Jars and Jugs from the Newport Medieval Kiln Excavations

Posted on November 3, 2017 by Oliver Kent

The late 15th/early 16th century pottery kiln preserved beneath the Memorial Hall in Newport, Pembrokeshire is a remarkable survivor (see The Newport Medieval Kiln, Pembrokeshire (Feb 2016). Identified by Mortimer Wheeler during the building of the hall in 1921 and … Continue reading →

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Finds from the medieval kiln-site at Newport, Pembs.

Posted on February 9, 2017 by Oliver Kent

Building work on the Memorial Hall in Newport is beginning now and the removal of soil outside the north west corner of the building is producing large quantities of medieval pottery and kiln debris. These are some samples of the … Continue reading →

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20th Century Tile Murals in Lisbon. Part 2 Eduardo Nery

Posted on March 26, 2016 by Oliver Kent

My visit to the Avenida Infanta Santo in Lisbon was to see the four large tiles murals installed there in 1959 as part of a large public housing project (see the previous post). I had been lured there by a … Continue reading →

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20th Century Tile Murals in Lisbon – Part 1

Posted on March 26, 2016 by Oliver Kent

A few years ago someone gave me a book called The Art of Azuleyo in Portugal (1988). It is illustrated mainly in black and white and not very exciting, but right at the back is a short chapter entitled Modern … Continue reading →

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The Compton Pottery, kilns and William de Morgan

Posted on February 14, 2016 by Oliver Kent

Over half-term we visited the Watts Gallery and Artists’ Village outside Guildford in Surrey. I met Hilary Calvert who has written a book on the pottery at Compton at a Northern Ceramic Society conference last year . This was an art pottery set … Continue reading →

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Belfast – Transport House tiled mural 

Posted on October 30, 2015 by Oliver Kent

Transport House in High Street, Belfast is the former Northern Ireland headquarters of the Transport and General Workers Union. Built in 1959 and designed by architect J J Brennan it is clad in soft green ceramic tiles with a large … Continue reading →

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Bill Newland, Margaret Hine and Sam Haile at the Ken Stradling Collection

Posted on October 10, 2015 by Oliver Kent

‘Of Brush and Clay – Painter Potters of the mid 20th Century’ The current exhibition at the Ken Stradling Collection, 48 Park Row, Bristol. On until 9 December. An exhibition of ceramics by Bill Newland, Margaret Hine and Nicholas Vergette … Continue reading →

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