King John's Castle — ceramic art tile

King John's Castle

Keepsake · 2 in / Glossy / Loose
$22.00
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King John's Castle — ceramic art tile
  • King John's Castle — ceramic art tile
  • King John's Castle — front
  • King John's Castle — scale
  • King John's Castle — gifting
  • King John's Castle — 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.
  • King John's Castle — ceramic art tile
  • King John's Castle — front
  • King John's Castle — scale
  • King John's Castle — gifting
  • King John's Castle — 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.
King John's Castle

King John's Castle

$22.00
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A five-sided keep on King's Island, where the Shannon bends through Limerick. King John of England ordered it raised around 1210, less than a century after the Normans landed in Ireland. The thick limestone walls have held through the Cromwellian guns of 1651 and the long Williamite siege of 1691, and were still standing when the modern visitor centre was cut into the courtyard. The Vikings had a longphort on this same bend of the river three hundred years before the castle went up. Stand at the curtain wall at low tide and the Shannon is right below you.

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

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