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Condition Report
A few very tiny and a few minute edge chips,
surface is perfect, perfectly clean and very high
glaze brilliance.
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An amazing full design akin to arts & crafts
style interweaving foliage but rather more
interesting. Two birds, one perched and one in
flight, in a flowering bush with branches and
leaves appearing to spring from everywhere and the
most highly stylised flowers. A fascinating design,
full and strong yet as you dig in to it you find
more subtlety, a near unique decorating style in a
warm chocolate brown print and from a rarely found
manufacturer.
The double outline style is rarely seen on
English tiles, more often on French to whom BWM
presumably sold many tiles as some bear printing in
French language (the French equivalent of
copyright), it creates a unique effect, a sort of
quirky third dimension to the design. The birds are
also interesting, very much more stylised than
usual being decorated more with patterns rather
than shading and hatching. In all a fascinating
design and execution, a rare example of
Anglo-Franco-Japanesque design!
Near perfectly clean grid verso with B W M &
Co embossed.
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