A excellent group of six Wedgwood
Creamware tiles decorated with flora and fauna
finely printed and exquisitely painted in the
manner of W S Coleman's 'Naturalist' design
(shown below). Wedgwood Creamware tiles are
rarely found, it is not until 1880/1 that
Wedgwood established a specialist tile making
department which produced the ofttimes famous
designs that are familiar to many.
Versos very clean combed plastic clay some
with painted artists marks and pencil
script.
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Condition: Fine
Price: £1150 (approx $1524)
Ref: 06271/2/3/4/5/6
Few very tiny > minute
chips/roughness/slight glaze losses to the tip
of the rims, surfaces very near perfect.
The image below is from the National
Archives who describe it thus:
Ornamental design for a dinner service.
This design is usually referred to as the
'Naturalist' service. These striking designs
were prepared for Minton by the artist WS
Coleman [William Stephen Coleman].
Minton paid Coleman a fee of £200 for the
designs. Using the retail price index £200
in 1870 would be worth over £12,000 today.
Compared with average earnings in 1870,
£200 would be worth over £100,000, a
significant amount to be paid for one design.
This design is illustrated Joan Jones Minton,
The First Two Hundred Years of Design &
Production, Swan Hill Press, 1993, page 67.
