# Two large tiles from a column [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [UNKNOWN POTTER, Dutch]() - Date: 1651-1700 - Technique: Blue-painted faience, 62 x 62 cm \(each\) ## Commentary Two large tiles from a column c. 1690 Blue-painted faience, 62 x 62 cm \(each\) Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam These unusually large tiles \(the standard size being 13 x 13 cm\) was ordered by King-Stadholder Willem III and his wife Mary Stuart for their palace at Hampton Court outside London. The Delft pottery, De Grieksche A, which was run at this time by Adriaen Kocks, was capable to carry out the commission. ## Related artworks - [Dish with a Representation of the Sense of Hearing]() - [Dish with a Winter Landscape]() - [Dish with Chinese Figures]() - [Dish with Chinese Figures]() - [Large covered jar]() - [Large covered vase]() - [Octagonal vase]() - [Octagonal vase]() - [Plaque with a Landscape]() - [Plaque with a Portrait of Robertus Junius]() - [Plaque with the Prophet Elijah Fed by the Ravens]() - [Plaque with View inside a Gothic Church]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()