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Condition Report
A touch of roughness bottom right edge, two very
tiny stun chips otherwise the surface is
perfect.
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An uncommon series from Mintons, a set of twelve
though completing the set would be a challenge. A
quite charming, simple yet with individual style,
view of a riverside town. An unusual decorating
process for Mintons and generally, an outline blue
printed hand coloured in two shades of blue. All
blue prints tended to leech in to the glaze losing
clarity and definition so printing and colouring
was a deliberate choice to produce a better quality
of decoration.
Mintons China Works rarely produced tiles which
were hand decorated the vast majority being printed
or moulded, even during the 1880s when Sherwin
& Cotton, The Decorative Art tile Co and many
others were producing brightly coloured wares
Mintons pursued single colour transfer prints and
Reynold's patent multicolour block prints. It was
not until the 1890s that hand coloured prints and
majolica tiles were standard fare, until then the
few hand decorated tiles that were made were done
in the pottery, and of course many Mintons tiles
were decorated by outside studios and potters.
Verso very clean, embossed name and badge,
handpainted pattern(?) number S1749.
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