Rare Jackson Brothers Block Print Tile
Condition: Excellent Price: £120 (approx $193) Ref: #03740 UK Special Delivery £128 EU Airsure £132 US and World Airsure £136 Currency Converter Tiny chips to the corners, nothing else to speak off, fabulous shiny glaze surface virtually unmarked.
• Style/technique: Floral print • Manufacturer: Jackson Bros • Dimensions: 6" x 6" • Date: design registered 1884	A rare and quite amazing tile although perhaps the reasons not immediately apparent. A pleasing floral design within a circular cartouche surrounded by stylised floral elements suggesting a cross between gothic and japanoiserie, very typical of the period the design being registered in 1884. Nice colours and therein is part of the mystery for it is a block printed tile with the red at the corners overpainted yet underglaze. Of course one can't be sure the colours coincide precisely with the date of introduction or registration but they should be within three years before the registration expired and so are quite special. A six colour tile, the outline printed in dark brown, blue, green, yellow and warm brown fill colours printed and burgundy at the corners hand painted. It is fascinating that they made the effort to paint those tiny flowerheads at the intersections especially in deep red for it potentially caused problems in firing resulting in more waste production. Block printing was a speciality of Mintons Ltd indeed very few of their tiles are coloured by hand, despite their reputation for art tiles they were mostly mechanical decorators. We have seen some with near certainty made by Steele & Wood, uncommon but found from time to time and in some colours that Mintons apparently could not achieve, some with a textured effect that softens the bold conformity of block printed colours. This is a first from Jackson Bros and a great find, a good range of colours to find block printed and a tile of interest to serious collectors and of museum interest. So who were Jackson Bros? Their wares are seen from time to time but not in any great quantity but for sure many get wrongly attributed. They used a grid grip pattern (like Mintons Ltd) and rail pattern like Marsden, Wedgwood and many others, very few are idneitified, some are named and some have a design registration number. They registered twenty designs between 1884 and 1886. Verso a little grubby and rust stained along one edge, rail pattern, design registration number printed
The image is full size at 72 dpi (about 430 pixels wide) in maximum quality JPEG format and on screen is about the size as it would be in real life at the same distance. 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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