Architectural Tile and Ornament

Ceramics 1

Nara, Japan 1200-1400 CERoof top of a shrine. The central tile is press molded as are the round circles below.

Wat Benchamabophit, Dusit, Thailand, 1899

Tondo (round architectural ornament), Andrea Della Robbia. Italian Renaissance, 1400s. Most of the raised

items are press molded.

Luca Della Robbia

Palacio Frontiera, Lisbon, Portugal, 1600s. Painted rather than press molded tile

Delft Tile, Holland, painted with cobalt over white glaze.

Mexican Ultra Baroque, San Francisco Acatepec, 1640-1750

All the scrollwork you seehere is produced using molds. Most of these piecesare plaster, but all began with a clay prototype (first piece) from whicha mold was taken.

Adriana Varejao

Varejao’s work deals with the historicalmeat (the mortal lives, the painand suffering) that lie behindhistorical architecture and.

She is a Brazilian artist. The work is oftenabout the history of European colonizationof the Americas. If you aren’t aware,European (whether Portuguese, Spanish,or English) colonization was brutal, slave labor.

Adriana Varejaao, For an installation in Japan

Martina LantinLantin is a contemporary artist interested in historic

ornamentation. These are press molded ceramic tiles.

Arts and Crafts Movement 1900-1920Charles Rennie MacIntosh Tile. The Arts and Crafts Movement sought to bring art into everyday life from tiles to wallpaper.

Art Nouveau Tile. The Art Nouveau style is marked by the curving lines of vegetation.

Complex tile patterns from Uzbekistan

More Uzbek Tile – Your tile does not have to be square.

Pewabic Pottery Tiles, Arts and Crafts Movement

Jason Green, contemporary tile installation

Another Jason Green tile, press molded.

Tiled Building