THE DELFT TILE
ECHOES OF THE PAST
Delft tiles for their imperfections,’ explains Durk Regts, a specialist Delft tile dealer based in Friesland, the Netherlands. ‘They were fabricated completely by hand without modern technology. If you compare them to 21st-century tiles, they are so much more .’ Although 17th-century Dutch potters had already made headway with tile design, it was a group of Italian craftsmen in Antwerp who truly honed the craft,
