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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;KylieS, post: 4514684, member: 22292&quot;]My feeling is that these are recently painted on reclaimed (or repurposed) tiles. </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m pretty interested in architecture and pottery, I&#039;ve never seen or heard of an Italian roof tile being decorated in this way - wall tiles yes but not on roofs. (Who would see it?)</p><p><br /></p><p>Also you have to overlap roof tiles to make a roof watertight, which is still the usual way of doing things in Tuscany, so these designs with essential parts of the design worked right to the edge&nbsp; make no sense from that perspective. A quarter to a third would be covered as the photo of the undecorated tile roof shows.</p><p><br /></p><p>Also, really just a feeling, but I also think that the face of the woman is modern, not 16th / 17th C. The line work around the nose seems a little...casual? The quick flourish lines seem to owe a debt to fashion illustration / graphic design, so it doesn&#039;t seem like it&#039;s in the right place on the art continuum to be very old...and the eyebrows...hmmm.&nbsp; But just a feeling on that. </p><p><br /></p><p>Hope you find your definitive answer soon <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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