• Style/technique: Art nouveau majolica
• Manufacturer: Henry Richards
• Dimensions: 6" x 6"
• Date: Design registered 1907
• Colours: 3

• Condition: Fine
• Price: £120 (approx $238)
• Ref: #03010

Condition Report

One very tiny and a couple of minute edge chips, slight staining in the crazing near the right edge, mark from the fireplace frame near the bottom right corner otherwise surface condition is near perfect. A wonderful tile with brilliant red and great glazes.

This tile is one of a small group of fabulous asymmetric art nouveau designs made by Richards in 1907 the design the most popular of the group and made in many colourways. This is colourway 26 and what excellent colour with a great example of Richards red for the background, their reds were amongst the best.

Asymmetrical art nouveau designs are one of the most difficult styles to master, the flow of the line in such elegant and light design has to be just perfect. It is so much easier to achieve balance in a symmetrical design, literally one half is the mirror image of the other, asymmetric designs are at least four times as difficult to successfully achieve.

Verso clean but some sooting with design registration number and pattern number.

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.

The image is full size at 72 dpi (about 430 pixels wide) in maximum quality JPEG format. Customers may request a larger 120 dpi image also in maximum quality JPEG format for closer inspection which will be sent by email.