Forever Shaking, c. 18th Century Delftware Tile with Perfectly Smeared Hand-painted Dancing Couple wax valentine Large one in this group

Large one in this group measures 11 1/4" x 6 1/2"

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rolls along smoothly like a pizza wheel

and 52 more letters on top of that

The form is that of a canteen

Forever Shaking, c. 18th Century Delftware Tile with Perfectly Smeared Hand-painted Dancing Couple wax valentine Large one in this groupA happy accident this one, with what I believe was a smear to the rendering of the two figures literally baked into the tile several centuries ago! The effect, to my eye, is to add even more vigor to their dancing, as if they're forever shaking their whole bodies with a sort of maniacal exhuberance! Which somehow feels especially right for a Delft tile immediately recognizable things, iconic really, and made to laid in larger groups, such that their