• Style/technique: Floral print
• Made by: Unattributed*
• Dimensions: 6" x 6"
• Date: design registered 1888

• Condition: Excellent
• Price: £55 (approx $109)
• Ref: #03021

Condition Report

Very small chip bottom edge, a few other very minor chips/glazes flakes to the edges, surface is near perfect, very clean and bright.

A super floral tile of wild roses with a printed chocolate brown background that gives a great contrast, coloured with four colours. Such floral tiles with shaded backgrounds are relatively uncommon and in interesting niche for collectors. Solid colour printing is generally assumed to be block printed but by the late 19thC lithographic printing could achieve sold colours too as this example.

* The design was registered to Wm Henry Micklethwait who were ironfounders from Rotheram and who had at least a few dozen designs made for them by various manufacturers such as Sherwin & Cotton and The Decorative Art Tile Co, this apparently by Booth or Woolliscroft.

Verso slightly smoke stained, standard grid, printed registration number indistinct but decipherable.

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.