Tiles

Tile with fruit bowl

Fruit bowl on foot (tazza) with asymmetrical assorted fruit, like pears and a prune, flanked by grapes; fleur-de-lis corner motif; three majolica colours: blue, green and orange; 1625-1650

Tazza's were loved in the seventeenth century to showcase and serve fruit. Often they were executed in silver, sometimes in other metals. Whilst on tiles the fruit is usually arranged in a strict symmetrical way, on paintings we see more loose arrangements, closer to how they must have looked in real life. This very rare tile also shows such a lively composition. This was the reason Ab Vrij decided to buy it to add it to his large collection of tiles with fruit bowls. The fruit on all the others were symmetrically arranged.