A pleasing floral design of a
group of daisy-like flowers within a circular cartouche
surrounded by a dappled blue and mustard border and with
very highly brilliant glaze. The tile features a rare
combination of decorating techniques and was likely fired
several times in the process of making, the techniques
appear to have followed the following sequence. First the
two dusted browns were applied to the background, then
the blue circular slip background to create the cartouche
also apparently applied by stencil and then the black
outline to the circle painted. The blue was then pricked
through to reveal the clay beneath and the stencil
colours applied, browns and white. The tan edges to the
flower centres were painted by hand and finally the honey
coloured glaze applied, during the firing the cobalt blue
has blended this honey glaze producing a near black
finished colour. With a wide range of hand decorating
techniques these tiles are quite personal to the
decorator and have a very artistic feel much beloved by
collectors of arts & crafts. Part of the rarity comes from
the quality of decoration, the variety of decorating
techniqes gives rise to a number of potential variables.
I believe that this tile is pretty much as intended with
perhaps the honey glaze being applied a little too
thickly. One tiny chip bottom edge near left
and very small glaze chip right edge. A very small surface
chip near the bottom left corner, some rubbing to high spots
of the brown leaves and other very minor surface marks. The
glaze has very high brilliance. 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
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Condition: Excellent
Price: £100 (approx $198)
Ref: 01738B
The image is full size at 72 dpi (about 430 pixels wide) in
maximum quality JPEG format. A larger 120 dpi image also in
maximum quality JPEG format can be forwarded by email if
required.