Ancient tiles

Examples of various ceramic inlaid tile patterns in the old singing school of Worcester cathedral. Inlaid tiles, or encaustic tiles as they are also called, are fired clay tiles with a simple pattern picked out in a clay inlay of a contrasting colour, usually white on a red ground.

A Fine and Very Rare Group of 23 Temple’s Roof Tiles from 3 Kingdoms-4th -6th C.: Korea, Three Kingdoms (Old Silla, Baekjae and Goguryo)4th -6th century. They are various types of molded lotus bud decorated roof tiles, and a depicting monster mask molded design, most of them from Silla dynasty, and a few rare tiles of them from Baekjae and Goguyo period, They’re fine condition with some chips aroung its edges due to its ages (but one tile broken and reattached), otherwise they’re fine…

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13th-century floor tiles, form part of the largest surviving spread of medieval decorated floor tiles inside any building in England and you can still walk on them.

TEHERAN, NORTH PERSIA, LATE 19TH CENTURY

Pavement tiles

Mosaic floor in the home of Pompeia Plotina Claudia Phoebe Piso (d. 121/122 AD), Roman Empress and wife of Emperor Trajan.

This round olive branch marble mosaic can be installed in a tabletop, floor or wall and operated outdoors. The joints of the mosaic are filled by two-component, decorative, satin finish, acid-resistant epoxy mortar for natural stone, so the mosaic has high performance, resistant to mechanical stress, waterproof, resistant to ultraviolet rays and atmospheric precipitation.

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