TileWeb: Leicestershire (J543)

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County:	Leicestershire	Click on Image to see original watercolour
Town/Village:	Leicester
Place Details:	St Mary's church
Artist and Date:	F Renaud 1888 October 13; P Manning 1907
Iconography:	Human Figure
Copied from (Collection):	Soc of Antiq Ren III p 325
Watercolour Ref. No.:	J543
Notebook: FMP
Portfolio: Jas P,
Notebook: IH	4
Other details:	A tile preserved in York Museum on which a man is portrayed piping to a tumbler. Mr Fosbrook (Brit Mon. p 47) quoting from Du ?Lange says `Corbitores i.e. tumblers used to attend burials of the poor and throw somersets' Mr Jewitt figures a similar tile in the Reliquary Volume 8 Plate II and says it was fabricated at the Repton kiln near Derby. Same design. In pencil:

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