A pleasing floral design of a
group of narcissi(?) within a circular cartouche
surrounded by a dappled blue and mustard border and with
very highly brilliant glazes. This is a very rare example of
Wedgwood's patent impressed tiles, unusual in its design
within a circular frame and within my experience an
unprecedented range of colours. Ten colours is an
incredible number for patent impressed or indeed almost
any tile, there are three browns, two greens, blue and
white with painted black outline and clear and mustard
yellow glazes. The tile features a rare
combination of decorating techniques which appear to have
followed the following sequence. The browns in the
background were dusted in to the press and then the dust
clay added and pressed, this is the patent impressed
process other techniques used are applied rather than
impressed. Next the blue circular slip background to
create the cartouche apparently applied via stencil, then
the black outline to the circle painted. The blue was
then pricked through to reveal the clay beneath and the
stencil colours applied, greens, white and fawn. The tan
edges to the flower centres were painted by hand and
finally the glazes were applied with a mustard yellow
glaze upon the border and a near clear glaze on the
cartouche. 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. One chip middle left edge and a
tiny chip just below, very small chip and tiny chip bottom
edge, tiny chip top edge. A little patch of glaze chips on
the tan background near the leftmost leaf otherwise the
surface is near perfect. The glaze has superb
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: £90 (approx $140)
Ref: 02146B
The image is full size at 72 dpi (about 430 pixels wide) in
maximum quality JPEG format.