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Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales
Lewis Group 21 no.345
Slip-on-impression. 4-tile design: circular band with indecipherable (probably mock) inscription surrounding a quatrefoil outlined by a similarly inscribed band; set diagonally between the circle and angles of the quatrefoil are four portcullis emblems (Somerset); in each corner outside the circle a weeping foliage motif. Sir Charles Somerset (c.1460-1526), s. of Henry beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset, who m. Elizabeth only Child of William Herbert, Lord Herbert of Raglan, was the ancestor of the Dukes of Beaufort (Siddons 1993).
Whilst this tile has been labelled as design 345 (see Lewis, 1999, p55 & 56), there is evidence of a single line border on this example, which is not present on the catalogue illustration (ibid, 157).
Site Name: Castle Street, Abergavenny
