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Stove tile
(1850-1851)
Medium
earthenware
Measurements
3.0 × 22.5 × 22.5 cm
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Alan Black Bequest in memory of Leonard Simpson, 2020
Gallery location
Not on display
About this work
Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin was an architect, designer and theorist and a key figure of the British nineteenth-century design reform movements. Pugin designed this tile as part of the large stove in the Medieval Court at the London Great Exhibition of 1851. The stove was the centrepiece of the court which Pugin designed entirely. Five different tile designs were used on the stove with the perforated ones, like this example used at the top to allow the heat to escape. The bright lead-glazed tiles were set into an iron frame around the stovewhich measured three and a half metres high by almost two metres wide.
Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England
Accession Number
2020.736
Department
International Decorative Arts