Bold and Rare Art Nouveau Tile
• Condition: Good • Price: £120 (approx $185) • Ref: #03741 UK Special Delivery £128 EU Priority £132 US and World Priority £136 Currency Converter A chip to the edge lower left edge that barely impacts on the face of the tile, half a dozen very tiny rim chips and extremely slight wear top edge. Surface is excellent, slight rubbing to higher points, dark speck towards top right is underglaze flaw.
• Style/technique: Art Nouveau majolica • Manufacturer: Alfred Meakin • Dimensions: 6" x 6" • Date: design registered 1903	A superb and famous design that we would love to see more of and this a rare example too, the first that I can recall in three colours. Most are one colour and occasionally two colours which always are close in palette and formulation for without a raised outline the glazes can be ill defined and in mixing potentially can react. The blue in the seeds peering between the leaves is a richer blue not merely the same blue but stronger in hue. This is a very well painted example, nicely true to the design with just a near miss on the right. A registered design and quite early in the art nouveau period for the peak years were 1903 - 1907, many of the boldest designs originate from 1903 and this was registered in June. Interestingly the painted number verso suggests 12 colourways far more than I have seen though to be sure that is usually the case. Meakin's pattern numbers are at times confusing perhaps due to the takeover by Johnsons, this design also appears with pattern number 499. Not only a famous design but infamous for Austwick said 'probably Pilkington' when they illustrated it but Pilkington did not produce such full and rich designs, at least as far as I have seen to date. Verso very clean, embossed A. M. Ltd and England, pattern number painted.
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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