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Very tiny chip bottom left corner, minute chip
just below top right corner, four minute glaze
losses. Very minor surface marks, you have to seek
them out, wonderful glaze brilliance. •
Style/technique: Art Nouveau
majolica A classic art nouveau design, flower and two
buds, erect stems the side stems branching in to
flowing movement, this design also made by
Richards and almost indistiguishable. Fabulous
and rare colours, amongst the most desirable for
art nouveau and majolica collectors with the
rich blue and deep red, super bright
yellow/green for the stems and leaves.
Especially rare colours for Ollivant too one
would expect Richards, only the second blue
ground tile I can recall seeing by Ollivant. A
tile that will stand out in many collections
perhaps even holding the pride of place. H A Ollivant are one of the smaller
manufacturers producing a rather limited range
of design likely less than one thousand in
nearly two decades. Many super designs from
their transfer printed patterns onwards their
majolicas are especially great on par with the
best of of the better known manufacturers and
often with exception quality moulding. Verso very clean, a little smoke stain along
one edge, COV and England embossed, pattern
number written in glaze indicating colourway 22,
I have seen but a few so maybe more wonderful
colours to be discovered. But these are rare and
this is the only one we have for sale. 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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