France, late 15th-early 16th century A.D. A square ceramic tile with stamped, honey-glazed design composed of a huntsman sounding a horn, mounted on a horse galloping left, tree in the background. Cf. Mayer, J., Pavement Carreaux de Sol en Champagne au Moyen Age et a la Renaissance, Paris, 1999, motif no. 10, pp.100-211; cf. Norton, E.C., 'De l'Aquitaine a l'Artois: Carreaux Stannifere et Carreaux Plombiferes des XIII et XIVe siecles en France' in Rosen and Crepin-Lebrond, Images du pouvoir, pavements de faience en France du XIIIe au XVIIe siecles, Lyon, 2000, pp.24-48. 535 grams, 12.6 x 12.6 cm (5 x 5 in.). With Etude Tajan, 10 December 2013, lot 66. Ex central London gallery. Accompanied by a copy of a previous typed catalogue page. The later medieval period witnessed a renaissance in the use of tiles in the Touraine and Champagne regions. Popular motifs from the 13th century were revived, as can still be seen in the Cathedral of Bayeux, Calvados, where mounted huntsmen, running deer, boar and oak trees are dated to the 15th century. The stamp that made this tile of a galloping huntsman is not so carefully modelled and hence may be a copied design dating to the later period. [No Reserve]