• Style/technique: Mosaic print
• Made by: Mintons China Works
• Dimensions: 6" x 6"
• Date: design registered 1881

• Condition: Excellent
• Price: £85 (approx $169)
• Ref: #03033

Condition Report

Four tiny edge chips, a few glaze bubbbles near the middle of the bottom edge, spotlessly clean, few surface marks, brilliant glaze.

A bit of a catch this one but perhaps only recognised by the more experienced collectors of the genres for Minton Hollins block printed and mosaic patterns are rarely found and in addition arts and crafts movement style climbing and interweaving foliage is rarely represented in the mosaic style. Well printed in four colours and brilliantly glazed.

When Minton Hollins and Minton & Co (China Works) split Reynold the inventor of this printing process joined forces with Campbell at Mintons China Works. This would have happened in or soon before 1870 so this tile may be an indication from Hollins that he could manage the process without Reynolds. Hollins of course used handpainted colours to enhance his prints the colours being brighter and more varied than those available via printing, something that other companies did with the almost exclusive exception of Mintons China Works.

Verso clean but with a little adhesive residue, name as per usual, printed diamond registration mark.

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.