One tiny and half a dozen very tiny chips to the
bottom edge, extremely slight surface marks. Style/technique: Pictorial print Cinderella enters her carriage on the way to
the ball from the series of tiles depicting
scenes from the Cinderella story printed in a
nice warm brown on a pale buff clay. This is
similar clay to that used by Booth for their
'glaze that does not craze' this also not crazed
due to the semi-vitrified nature of the
clay. Malkin were a great tile company, widely
unrecognised but superb tilemakers. They started
making tiles in 1866 and were one of the few
tiles makers to stay in business for over a
century finally falling in to the hands of
Johnsons (who else) in 1968. They did super
quality designs and manufacturing quality
throughout all the eras, more picture series
than are generally known about and some
excellent art nouveau tiles. Verso very clean, Malkin's well known offset
grid and centre ring, unmarked. 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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