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Unfortunate that the corners have been trimmed
for the original fitting for it is otherwise
perfect. Two tiny manufacturing flaw dents in the
outline and a tiny speck of kiln dirty, surface is
flawless and brilliant. •
Style/technique: Art Nouveau
majolica An excellent and rarely found art nouveau
tile, the luscious flowerhead fills near half of
the tile and is reminiscent of representations
of peacocks in the style. Lovely colours, nice
green ground with a surprisingly uncommon bright
lemon yellow flower, highlights in blue and
mauve. The company is little known about and its
wares are not often seen. A handful of very bold
art nouveau designs from them are known and some
more ordinary designs too, few tiles bear the
brand name and only two registered designs have
been recorded. I can recall seeing this design just four
times, twice with a white ground and blue
flower, this colourway once before when I saw it
at an antique fair about a decade ago, wandered
around whilst I thought about it and soon
returned but it was sold already. So when I saw
this in a small group of four there was no
choice but not to buy. All I have seen of this design have had some
manufacturing flaws, strange how it goes there
are other designs that seem to suffer flaws
often. This with a speck of kiln dirty and two
very tiny dents in the outline is amongst the
best, the glaze painting is most commendable
being very true to the line even the tricky
mauve 'eyes'. Versos slightly stained perhaps from the
tileworks, no marks. Top corners cropped for the original fitting,
touch of wear to the tip of the rim bottom left
corner, tiny touch of rubbing mid right edge,
probably the best manufacturing seen by us on this
design one minute dent underglaze, two pinpirck
specks of kiln dirty, moulded outline perfect.
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