Forever Shaking, c. 18th Century Delftware Tile with Perfectly Smeared Hand-painted Dancing Couple wax valentine Box: 7 3/4 x 8

Box: 7 3/4 x 8 1/8 x 3/4

Large one in this group measures 11 1/4" x 6 1/2"

and just went back to my source and grabbed these last ones

which I think are almost as lovely as the fronts

which features a bunch of old writing on it in a child's hand

Forever Shaking, c. 18th Century Delftware Tile with Perfectly Smeared Hand-painted Dancing Couple wax valentine Box: 7 3/4 x 8A happy accident this one, with what I believe was a smear to the rendering of the two figures literally baked into the tile several centuries ago! The effect, to my eye, is to add even more vigor to their dancing, as if they're forever shaking their whole bodies with a sort of maniacal exhuberance! Which somehow feels especially right for a Delft tile immediately recognizable things, iconic really, and made to laid in larger groups, such that their