Style:
Arts & crafts bird life
Technique: Printed & painted
Maker: Craven Dunnill & Co
Dimensions:
8" x 8" (each tile)
Date: 1890 (circa)
Condition: Very fine
Price: £480 (approx. $598)
Ref: 06858B/9B
A rare pair of large bird tiles from this
quality company, lively arts & crafts style
birds and flowers in superb colours and
brilliantly glazed.
Versos clean but a little grubby, embossed
Craven Dunnill etc, painted pattern numbers.
Left tile perfect rim, exceedingly minor
surface marks. Right tile has a small chip
bottom edge near right corner, one minute rim
chip, specks of kiln dirty in the glaze
otherwise perfect surface. Light marks near the
rim are print flaws, surfaces are most
brilliantly glazed