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After informing us that he would sell it to the museum, he heard from the Duke of Rutland who begged him for the tile and said would give a considerable amount of money to the church if given it.\r\n\r\nThe British Museum analysed their tiles in 2007/8 by thermoluminescence dating and the results said that they were made between 500 and 800 years ago.","historicalContext":"See C.469-470-1927 and C.119-1930 for further information. Also see attached documents in Register.\r\nSimilar tiles are in the British Museum which were acquired from a sale at Sothebys on 3 March 1922 and were described as:\r\n'probably came from the Saxon church of St Peter ad Murum at Bradwell juxta mare, Essex, as they had been for many years in the possession of the Rector of that parish, and were acquired at the sale of his effects'.\r\n\r\nThe subject matter consists of apocryphal and Gospel scenes from the childhood of Christ. The scene represented on this fragment is the 'Adoration of the Magi'.","briefDescription":"Lead-glazed earthenware tile fragment covered with a white slip, carved and incised with apocryphal scenes from the childhood of Christ. English or French, made about 1330.","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Boulton, Maureen, 'The «Evangile de l'Enfance»: Text and Illustration in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Selden Supra 38,' <u>Scriptorium</u> 37.1 (1983): 54-65, esp. 62-65"},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Casey, Mary F, 'The Fourteenth-Century Tring Tiles: A Fresh Look at their Origin and the Hebraic Aspects of the Child Jesus' Actions', <u>Peregrinations: International Society for the Study of Pilgrimage Art</u> 2.2 (2007): 1-53"},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Strickland, Debra H, 'Gazing into Bernhard  Blumenkranz's <i>Mirror of Christian Art</i>: The  Fourteenth-Century Tring Tiles and the Jewishness of Jesus in Post-Expulsion England,' in <u>Jews and Christians in Medieval Europe: The Historiographical Legacy of Bernhard Blumenkranz</u>, ed. 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