Fabulous Japonesque Aesthetic Tile
Style/technique: Japonesque print Manufacturer: Mintons China Works for Barnard, Bishop & Barnard Dimensions: 6" x 6" Date: circa 1880   A superb and full design with a range of subjects in circular vignettes, a flying crane, fishes and rose against a cracked ice background sprinkled with carnations and with stylised corner motifs. In a warm chocolate brown on a celadon clay body, thicker than normal - Mintons 'hearth quality'. This design appears in Barnard, Bishop and Barnard's catalogue who had tiles made for them by Mintons China Works, T G & F Booth and William de Morgan whose first major contract was with them. This was made by Mintons and has their characteristic unnamed offset grid back used mostly for supplying direct to ironfounders and other noted distributors. Almost certainly designed by the famed architect Thomas Jeckyll who did much work around Norwich and specified and designed ironwork made by Barnard, Bishop & Barnard including fireplaces and including a particular style known as 'Jeckyll Grates' many of which bear very similar decoration to that on this tile. An excellent quality, well designed tile in nice colouring.
Condition: Fine Price: £150 (approx $300) Ref: 02714 About ten very small and lesser chips to the edges, extremely light surface marks, very clean with excellent glaze brilliance. UK Special Delivery £158 US and World Airsure £165 Full order information Contact us Currency Converter
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.

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