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Near perfect really, just one tiny surface chip
which is very well hidden in plain sight at the
heart of the flower bottom left. Some minor
manufacturing flaws but perfectly clean and
brilliantly glazed. • Style/technique: Aesthetic print
& tint An excellent tile, a lovely light and pretty
design of honeysuckle climbing a trellis, dark
brown print and four colours beautifully
painted. From an unknown manufacturer or decorator,
this looks like Marsden's biscuit. Printed mark
and pattern number the mark consisting of M, S
and J overlapping an ampersand the only
possibility that I am aware of being John Meir
& Son a pottery company that produced good
quality wares and reportedly was active from
1837 - 1897. Tiles with the mark are found from
time to time, very nice quality especially of
decoration and in styles typical of 1885 - 1895.
This tile has more decorating flaws than I would
expect from this company, still all minor and
not too detracting. Verso very clean, printed pattern number and
initials. The image is full size at 72 dpi (about 430
pixels wide) in maximum quality JPEG format, 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.
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