• Style/technique: Aesthetic majolica
• Manufacturer: E Smith
• Dimensions: 6" x 6"
• Date: circa 1885
 

• Condition: Very good
• Price: £70 (approx $138)
• Ref: #03022

Condition Report

Chips top corners, another on the top edge, wear to the bobble centre of the flowerhead, a few other lesser marks. Perfectly clean and very high brilliance glaze.

An excellent moulded tile in the arts and crafts movement style of foliage in bud weaving around eccentric trellis and with a stylised flwerhead to the centre. High relief moulding which is very crisp and sharp, an excellent example of the technique, high brilliance olive brown glaze. Possibly quite a bit earlier than the suggested date, could be early 1870s to mid 1890s.

A great tile from a less often found manufacturer, underrated, made super quality tiles and most we see are transfer prints so this a quite rare tile. A heavy tile being in buff clay and a little over half an inch thick.

Verso very clean, bars and 'E Smith, Coalville' embossed.

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.