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Tile Panel with a Herring Fleet
Cornelis Boumeester (1680-1730), glazed earthenware (faience), c. 1700-1720
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.
- Artwork typetile tableau
- Object numberBK-NM-10831-A
- Dimensionsheight 155 cm x width 194 cm x thickness 5.5 cm