DUTCH TILES PLAY CUBE




Rattling cuddly cubes with old Dutch tiles.

The cubes show early seventeenth-century Dutch tiles. Such polychrome tiles were produced in Holland in large numbers before the famous blue and white Delft tiles came into fashion. The technique of their production, which used only four colours, was imported from southern Europe. Many southern motifs, too, such as pomegranates, bunches of grapes and exotic animals, were used at first. Later the decoration of the tiles came to include typically Dutch images, such as tulips and the Lion of the national coat of arms.

On these early Dutch tiles the corner motifs were as important as the central image. Only when four of them are joined together the full, regular pattern becomes visible.

The four cuddly cubes are sown together in such a way that you can move and turn them to create six different panels with old Dutch tiles.

Single play cube: 10 x 10 x 10 cm.
4-in-1 play cube: 20 x 20 x 10 cm.