Collectable Tiles

Rare Wedgwood Patent Impressed Impressionist Tile

Style/technique: Floral stencilled

Manufacturer: Josiah Wedgwood & Sons

Dimensions: 6" x 6"

Date: circa 1895

Quite one of the most artistic tile designs ever produced by Wedgwood in any technique, a floral design with a decidedly impressionist feel to it and made by very unusual techniques. All colours but the lighter green on the leaves, the white petals and brown are applied by dusting the stain, the darker part of the leaves and stem are recessed in to the background.

In the making the first stencilled layer of slip applied is the background, next dusting of stains in three colours, pale blue, grey/green and orange, have been applied to the entire tile. Dark green and dark brown then dusted in to the recessed leaves then the lighter green slip of the leaves and bright white slip of the flowers applied through stencils. Finally a brown slip outline is painted to define the outlines of the stems, leaves and flowers.

An intriguing tile, for a Patent Impressed tile I am impressed at it's unusual impressionist feel. Most irritatingly, and quite exceptionally for a Patent Impressed tile it has no pattern number on the back so we can not put it in to the sequence of designs by Wedgwood. The back is a fully marked Patent Impressed back with place settings for feet to make a pot stand.

Condition: Very good
Price: £190 (approx $375)
Ref: 02236

One chip on the top edge and about half a dozen very small/tiny chips on the right edge, the chip to the bottom left corner is a glazed over manufacturing imperfection. There is a small surface chip on the bottom left leaf and two other very tiny surface chips otherwise the surface condition is very excellent with only the slightest of marks. On the upper half of the left side there's a little staining on the very edge and also in the crazing close by but the most obvious mark there is a glazing imperfection. It is very clean and bright.

UK Special Delivery £198

US and World Airsure £205

Click for full order information

Click to contact for more information

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.

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.

To see current dollar price and convert price to other currencies try this Universal Currency Converter.

Information Tiles For Sale Contacts Order Information