Barbotine Stencil Floral Tile • Condition: Good • Price: £60 (approx $94) • Ref: #03277B UK Special Delivery £68 EU Priority £72 US and World Priority £76 Currency Converter Three tiny, three very tiny rim chips, half a dozen very tiny > minute surface chips. Super autumnal colours not in the least dull and the most brilliant glaze.   • Style: Floral • Technique: Barbotine stencil • Manufacturer: George Marsden • Dimensions: 6" x 6" • Date: circa 1895   A superb floral example of Marsden's stencil decoration in a good range of colours, I count six an uncommonly large number, plus the brilliant honey coloured majolica glaze. Quite complex decoration, two slips are merged and blended on the petals the tan overpainted with richer brown and the whole creating the impression of barbotine similar to tiles by Sherwin & Cotton. Collectors are familiar with stencilled slip tiles by Wedgwood in part due to George Marsden's association with them, tiles from his own company are found much less often and overall and usually have the greater merit. This tile is recommended to collectors of Wedgwood tiles as it is an excellent example of the master's work. Stencilled slip tiles are often called Marsden's Patent because many by Wedgwood are found with Patent Impressed embossed verso and this has been understandably taken to describe the stencilled slip process. Marsden offered his patent to Wedgwood in 1880 and in 1881 production started with a specialist department being established the following year. This stencilled process however is not what the patent describes furthermore the slips are obviously applied rather than impressed, it would appear that the root cause of the misunderstanding is due to Wedgwood's buying in policy. A misreading of the patent not least by the author of the book in which the outline of the patent is transcribed along with a description of the process by Marsden himself has compounded the error. It is believed that Wedgwood bought most if not all of their tile blanks from subcontractors and that blanks made from green clay came from different manufacturers to those from white clay. Green clay blanks being the most often used for Patent Impressed were all embossed with that legend however Wedgwood used such green clay banks for tiles decoration by other processes, ordinary stencilled slip such as this and also transfer prints. The result being that many stencilled slip tiles which do not use the patented process are found with Patent Impressed embossed when they aren't and they shouldn't. Verso quite clean but some rust stain, pattern number incised otherwise unmarked generic rails.   Information Tiles For Sale Contacts Order Information