Minton Pugin Passion Flower Tile
Condition: Near perfect Price: £125 (approx $189) Ref: #03472 UK Special Delivery £133 EU Airsure £137.50 US and World Airsure £141.50 Currency Converter Three very tiny rim chips, perfect surface, no crazing.
• Style/technique: Stylised floral print • Manufacturer: Minton Hollins • Dimensions: 6" x 6" • Date: circa 1870	An excellent bold stylised Reynold's Patent block print with further hand painted colour. Very bold and bright. A design by A W N Pugin and designed for Minton & Co before the company split in to separate tile making and china companies. Both companies made this design and in the Mintons China Works catalogue it can be seen on sheet 8 and pattern number 801. It is common nowadays to attribute every similarly simple tile design of the period, anything with a crane, anything with flowers in a vase indeed almost anything not pictorial to Christopher Dresser. This design in particular is often so attributed as are many Pugin designs, this is simply wrong. There are zero records of Dresser designing any tiles at all, there is good evidence and reason why he would not have designed tiles. Harry Lyons notes that J F Blacker reports that Dresser designed tessallated pavements for Minton Taylor but no designs are known. Blacker was a professional author specialising in books on art, his source for the reference is unknown. It does seem rather a stretch that an illustrious designer of objéts such as Dresser would design what we now think of as ordinary geometric floors and pathways. Verso perfectly clean and fully marked as usual for Minton Hollins. Only one available.
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