Chateau de Chinon — ceramic art tile

Chateau de Chinon

Keepsake · 2 in / Glossy / Loose
$22.00
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Chateau de Chinon — ceramic art tile
  • Chateau de Chinon — ceramic art tile
  • Chateau de Chinon — front
  • Chateau de Chinon — scale
  • Chateau de Chinon — gifting
  • Chateau de Chinon — grouping
  • Above the bench, in a warm oak surround.
  • Beside the kettle, propped on the counter.
  • Above the linens, in a slim black surround.
  • On the nightstand, on a light oak stand.
  • On a picture ledge, where the light comes in.
  • Chateau de Chinon — ceramic art tile
  • Chateau de Chinon — front
  • Chateau de Chinon — scale
  • Chateau de Chinon — gifting
  • Chateau de Chinon — grouping
  • Above the bench, in a warm oak surround.
  • Beside the kettle, propped on the counter.
  • Above the linens, in a slim black surround.
  • On the nightstand, on a light oak stand.
  • On a picture ledge, where the light comes in.
Chateau de Chinon

Chateau de Chinon

$22.00
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A long white fortress on a ridge above the Vienne, in the western Loire. Tuffeau limestone, soft and pale, easy to carve and slow to weather, gives the walls their cream colour. Henry II of England held court here in the twelfth century. Joan of Arc walked up from the town in March of 1429 and recognised the future Charles VII in a crowd that had been arranged to fool her. The fortress stretches more than four hundred metres along the ridge. Below it, Cabernet Franc vines drop down to the river. Late afternoon, the stone catches the western light and reads almost gold.

Slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, in our family studio in Knoxville, Tennessee.

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