Rare Art Nouveau Tube Line Tile
Condition: Near perfect Price: £120 (approx $187) Ref: #02640E UK Special Delivery £128 EU Priority £132 US and World Priority £136 Currency Converter No damage but a couple of manufacturing flaws, a glaze sealed shrinkage top edge very difficult to spot and the very tiny glaze blow on the left flower. About half a dozen points of wear on the outline mostly at intersections, otherwise surface is very near perfect with superb brilliance in the glazes.
• Style/technique: Art nouveau tube line • Manufacturer: Rhodes • Dimensions: 6" x 6" • Date: circa 1905	A simple handmade art nouveau design with absolutely superb colours, rich persian blue background, flame red flowers and good greens for the leaves and stems. The tube line technique has three main attributes, [1] the ability to create designs cheaply without costly tooling, [2] the high outline contains the glazes preventing nearby glazes contaminating each other enabling chemically conflicting glazes to be used, [3] the outline could be stained as dark as required to avoid the bright white cartoon like effect of moulded outline tile in white clay. This tile makes the best of these criteria. Interesting detail in the verso is clearly a Rhodes pattern and not one of their earliest, yet the pattern number is low. Rhodes are not known for tube line tiles in their earlier years and using this verso, the colours are atypical for them too so I guess we are justified in saying rare. Verso has typical rails with England embossed and pattern number written in glaze.
Condition: Near perfect Price: £155 (approx $242) Ref: #02640F UK Special Delivery £163 EU Priority £167 US and World Priority £171 Currency Converter Three minute rim chips, about half a dozen points of wear on the outline mostly at intersections, few exceedingly minor surface marks. Some minor manufacturing imperfections, fabulous brilliance in the glazes.
The image is full size at 72 dpi (about 430 pixels wide) in maximum quality JPEG format and on screen is about the size as it would be in real life at the same distance. 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.

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