• Style/technique: Aesthetic print
• Manufacturer: T & R Boote*
• Dimensions: 6" x 6"
• Date: circa 1885
 

• Condition: Very fine
• Price: £60 (approx $99)
• Ref: #03111

Condition Report

In very fine condition with just a few tiny chips around the edges and slight surface marks.

 

A very rare tile finely decorated in the aesthetic taste with bold stylised flowerheads in two quadrants, foliage and blossoms in the other two.

This is a top quality floor quality tile made in extremely durable semi-vitrified red clay, very dense and hence heavy and it is rare to find them decorated. Even rarer is the white print which of course could only feasibly be applied to darker coloured clays. The clay being semi-vitrified was also less inclined to accept printed decoration indeed when I first saw it I expected the print to be enamelled overglaze but it is in fact underglaze.

Verso very clean, Boote rings etc and pattern number 44 printed. The decorating may have been by a company other than Boote, Boote sold undecorated bicuit and this would have been a standard floor tile and hence widely available.

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.