Wm Wise Animals of the Farm Tile Minton
Condition: Very fine Price: £125 (approx $193) Ref: #03922 UK Special Delivery £133 EU Priority £137 US and World Priority £141 Currency Converter One tiny and two very tiny rim chips, surface is near perfect and brilliantly glazed.
• Style/technique: Pictorial print • Manufacturer: Mintons Ltd • Dimensions: 6" x 6" • Date: circa 1880	A blue and white picture tile featuring a group of highland cattle in the scottish moorland from the Animals of the Farm series. Engraved by William Wise and printed in Indian Blue a good example of this popuar series of excellent manufacturing quality and a nice blue which has turned out rich and clear in the firing. Traditional blue ink made from indigo of course is a great colour match and the likely reason for Minton using this colour so familiar it was with everyone until ball point pens became the norm just a few decades ago. Indigo being a vegetable stain couldn't resist firing temperatures so Mintons formulated a matching colour and hence the name Indian Blue for indigo comes from India. Verso pefectly clean embossed Mintons etc
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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