A rare opportunity, a pair of five tile
panels with a fabulous stylish art nouveau
design together with associated borders,
skirting and plains the decorative tiles
featuring the most outrageous bright pink and
purple.
In total a little over four square yards,
from a bathroom wall, the design is believed to
date from the edwardian era, the tiles date from
around 1930. Made by the famous Maw & Co of
Jackfield, Shropshire.
Some slight damage to the lower tiles of the
main panels as seen, the dominant flower tiles
are near perfect, no significant marks.
Plains are 90% perfect a few have edge
chips
3" borders are 90% perfect
2" mouldings are perfect apart from two with
corner chips
1" borders are perfect
Skirting are mostly perfect, two have factory
mitres, one has nibbled mitre, one has two drill
holes.
Perfect here is used a little more loosely
than we use it for collectors tiles where they
will be examined in the hand close-up. For
installations where they will be viewed from a
few feet away any tiny marks will not be
noticable and from a short distance these tiles
will certainly look perfect.
All tiles have been thoroughly cleaned,
mortar has been removed from edges and backs,
many backs are perfectly clean, where there
remains any mortar residue it is grains in the
recesses and will not affect fixing. There will
no doubt remain a few spots and splashes of
paint etc on some of the tiles, the skirting
tiles were painted white and there was overpaint
and splashes on nearby tiles which is very
difficult to see because of being white on
white. All tiles are crazed, in some the crazing
has taken a little staining. None considered
disfiguring indeed will give a real period feel
to the installation.
The tiles give a serious opportunity for
designing something special for tiling in a
kitchen, shower, vestibule etc or anywhere that
tiles may be fitted. Make an eye-catching
backdrop for the Aga or shower tiling that
brightens the day first thing. The chequered
borders will look great just framing panels of
plain tiles. The panels may be reduced if
required, they as many other designs of the
period were intended to be used as three, four,
five or six tiles high as can be seen from
catalogues of the period illustrating dado
tiling.
There is also a box of broken and trimmed
tiles mostly clean but some paint on skirtings
and the odd splash. About 20 checker border, 3
dados, 8 floral border which could be used as
halves for ends etc and some pieces of skirting
enough for a couple of half tiles and a couple
of 2" tiles. There are also about ten 6" x 2"
plain white cut from larger tiles.
