Flat, durable material used for flooring and roofing

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Clayton's patent tile, brick and pipe machine.

Bacchus, Roman God of wine, mosaic pavement, Roman

Architecture: a tile works (above), details of equipment (below). Engraving by Bénard [after Lucotte?].

The labelled interior of a boiler room at a military hospital in St. Petersburg. Lithograph.

The Wellcome Research Institution, Euston Road, London: a reconstruction of an Hispano-Moresque pharmacy, 1935-1946. Photograph.

Roman mosaic (tessellated) pavement, London

The interior of a room with steam and cold water pipes at a military hospital in St. Petersburg. Lithograph.

Building: a tile works (above), details of equipment (below). Engraving by Bénard [after Lucotte?].

A seventeenth-century bath-house, or bagnio, at St. Giles, London. Wood engraving.

Brightening the long days : hospital tile pictures / John Greene.

Early Netherlands maiolica : with special reference to the tiles at the Vyne in Hampshire / by Bernard Rackham.

A Japanese erotic scene of a man and a woman about to have sexual intercourse in a bedroom. Ceramic tile by Japanese craftsman.

A Japanese erotic scene of a man propositioning a woman for sex in a bedroom. Ceramic tile by Japanese craftsman.

A Japanese man and woman having sexual intercourse, the woman lying on top, playing a lute. Ceramic tile by Japanese craftsman.

A Japanese erotic scene of a man and a woman having sexual intercourse in a bedroom. Ceramic tile by Japanese craftsman.

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A Japanese erotic scene of a man and a woman having sexual intercourse in a bedroom. Ceramic tile by Japanese craftsman.

A Japanese man and woman having sexual intercourse, the woman lying on top, playing a lute. Ceramic tile by Japanese craftsman.

A Japanese erotic scene of a man and a woman about to have sexual intercourse in a bedroom. Ceramic tile by Japanese craftsman.

A Japanese erotic scene of a man propositioning a woman for sex in a bedroom. Ceramic tile by Japanese craftsman.