Collectable Tiles

Victorian Barbotine Floral Art Tile

Style/technique: Floral barbotine

Manufacturer: Sherwin & Cotton

Pattern number: B107

Dimensions: 6" x 6"

Date: circa 1885

Colours: 5

A very pleasing Arts & Crafts barbotine design which fills the tile. Natural autumn colours and a colour textured background combine to create a warm and friendly tile.

The body is of buff clay plastic clay and a little thicker than usual, verso has the Sherwin & Cotton Staffordshire Knot mark with the pattern number B107 incised. This clay appears to be proper fireclay rather than the usual clay used for early barbotine tiles, Sherwin & Cotton certainly made tiles from fireclay including tube line art nouveau.

Barbotine is a process whereby moulded tiles may be hand made, the relief being built up by painting on the designs in coloured slip. A difficult manufacturing process requiring great skill from the artist it was the first reasonably cost effective way to make durable embossed tiles. They predated moulded colour majolica tiles by a few years indeed it seems that the impetus to develop a cheaper process to compare with barbotine came from the success of Sherwin and Cotton's barbotine tiles.

Condition: Very Good
Price: £60 (approx $119)
Ref no: 01689

There are some small/tiny chips/roughness to the edges and some light rubbing to high spots.

UK Special Delivery £68

US and World Airsure £75

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The image is a little oversize rather than cropped close to the edges so that the edges can easily be seen and any chips etc can be quickly spotted. Other marks described are usually not visible at all when the tile is viewed straight as one normally sees it and can only be seen with a critical eye when the tile is tilted to catch imperfections in reflected light. For more details of how we describe marks see Condition.

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