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Square earthenware tile, dust pressed, pattern of raised horizontal bars and oval on reverse, upper side painted in enamels with three men by the hollow fire 'a kind of hearth with blast used for reheating the stamps produced in the South Welsh process of firing, or the bars of blister steel in the manufacture of shear-steel' Raymond 'Mining Glossary' quoted in the OED. A fourth in the middle fground, flattening metal under the hammer, brick arches behind to right, chimneys to left.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 32999
Acquisition
Found in collection
Measurements
Height
(cm): 1
Length
(cm): 15.2
Width
(cm): 15.2
Height
(in): 3
Length
(in): 5
Width
(in): 5
Techniques
dust-pressed
forming
Applied Art
enamelled
decoration
Applied Art
Material
earthenware
Location
In store
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