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Tile tableau with a herring fleet
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Tile tableau with a herring fleet

Tegelbakkerij aan de Delftschevaart · c. 1700 - c. 1725 · maiolica; earthenware; tin glaze

From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.

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This tableau consisting of 180 tiles can rival any painting. The Rotterdam tile painter Cornelis Boumeester painted compositions in a range of blue tints. Amid the herring fleet is the Rotterdam, a warship, with the city's coat of arms on the stern, the rearmost part of the boat. Painted tiles with recognizable depictions were extremely popular as wall decoration in the Netherlands.

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description
Subjects
tile tableausailing-ship, sailing-boatDe Rijp
Credit lineTegeltableau met een haringvloot. c. 1700 - c. 1725. Tegelbakkerij aan de Delftschevaart. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
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