• Condition: Good
• Price: £135 (approx $265)
• Ref: #03233

Corners cropped for the original fitting, some scuffing to high points and other minor surface marks. Very clean and outstanding glaze brilliance.

• Style/technique: Floral Marsden's Patent and stencilled slip
• Manufacturer: Wedgwood
• Pattern number: R2406
• Dimensions: 6" x 6"
• Date: circa 1890
 

 

This is a rare tile, a Wedgwood stencilled slip tile on a patent impressed body, the impressing of a lace pattern creating similar effect to Doulton & Slater's patent. A good range of colours in the slips, blue and yellow, green and brown, all covered with a brilliant apple green glaze.

Whilst it is almost universally believed that Marsden's Patent refers to the slip decoration this is not the case, impressed means literally impressed as this lace pattern is. Doulton & Slater's patent refers to plastic clay and presumably applied by hand or roller, Marsden's Patent refers to use in a press.

Typical unnamed Wedgwood verso with painted pattern number. It is considered most likely that this was actually made by Marsden and Co as Wedgwood apparently subcontracted much of their tile production.

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 jpg format. Customers may request a larger 120 dpi image also in maximum quality JPEG format for closer inspection which will be sent by email.