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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 2966435, member: 2844&quot;]I love ship tiles.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" /></p><p>It looks very Dutch to me. That specific colour blue was used in Makkum, Friesland, in the north of the Netherlands.</p><p><br /></p><p>Makkum tiles are difficult to date for me, because they continued to make older styles when the other Dutch tile making centres were already producing more &#039;fashionable&#039; styles.</p><p>The thickness of the glaze is a difficult way of dating a tile. You can find thick glazes on antique Dutch tiles, on antique Portuguese azulejos too for that matter, I have both.</p><p>For Dutch tiles like this one, the size and thickness of the tile, the style, and the corner motifs are ways of dating it. Your corner motifs are &#039;ossekopjes&#039;, Dutch for little ox heads.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" /></p><p>But again, Makkum was still making these after others had &#039;moved on&#039;.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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