Two tiny edge chips, short scrape bottom right
corner. Surface condition is near perfect, very
clean, excellent bright colours.
Style/technique: Pictorial multicolour
print * Attribution from 20th
Century Decorative British Tiles by C Blanchett
wherein this tile is illustrated. An idyllic rural scene of two men fishing
from a boat in the mill pond with a great
country house in the distance. Such landscapes
seem to have been produced around the turn of
the century as similar scenes may be found on
tiles by Mintons Ltd, Malkin, and smaller
studios and decorators. Few however are
multicolour printed and this is an excellent
multicolour printed tile, very well printed such
that often experienced tile dealers assert that
it and its kin are handpainted. The Decorative Art Tile Company is believed
to have closed doors in 1907 so this is a good
example of quite early colour printing. Little
seems to be known or at least written of the
development of colour printing for ceramics
other than the block printing 'Reynold's Patent'
process. Colour printing had been done in the
late 19thC by many ceramic companies the likes
of Steele & Wood, Maw & Co, W B Simpson,
Sherwin & Cotton on tiles, over time the
range of colours increased and as did print
resolution. This is a slightly limited colour
palette although all are natural colours
appropriate to the scene. The natural colours
enabled high resolution printing and this is a
truly convincing example, the print resolution
is so good that it is often assumed to be
handpainted. Verso very clean, unmarked, typical Boote
grid as commonly used by Decorative Art Tile Co
at the time. 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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