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Arts & Crafts Painted Seasons Tile


• Condition: Excellent
• Price: £275 (approx. $376)
• Stock number: 07320

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A few rim chips mostly on the right edge face, glaze surface near perfect.


 

Style: Seasons
• Technique: Painted
Maker: Unknown
Dimensions: 6" x 6"
Date: 1880 (circa)

 

This is a good tile, I don't really know anything about its origins but it is well painted underglaze which is important. Most painted tiles of the times are overglaze painted, that is to say someone bought a plain glazed tile and painted on top of the glaze at of course lower temperatures than underglaze painting. So the process is more complicated and costly and produces a better product, the pattern is protected by the glaze.

Now a lot of the famous name tiles are crap overglaze painted, Morris & Co., overglaze, subject to wear or made in Holland and reproductions of Islamic designs. De Morgan's lustres, the only red he did, are overglaze, they are on plain tiles, not blanks, WDM didn't buy in unglazed biscuit. Some of them are Wedgwood blanks apparently from after Wedgwood stopped making tiles. For almost the entirety of the Chelsea period Wedgwood did not have a specialist tile department so maybe all those WDM lustres aren't of that period. But Wedgwood bought tiles in from Marsden and Webbs which have the rail grip pattern that people believe to be Wedgwood so maybe WDM bought Marsden plain tiles. No one knows really even though lots of experts claim to.

I digress, too much BS around. This is a good tile, wish I knew more about it. I somehow doubt I will ever see Spring and Summer to make the set. I am sure someone has, maybe someone has them or a complete set. I do not believe these are from a unique set but from a small volume specialist studio. Autumn verso has the initials J.P quite neatly painted and what presumably is a date which looks like 1854 but is indistinct and what looks like a 5 could be a 9 and what looks like a 4 could be and 8 or 9.

Verso near perfectly clean, grid grip pattern, could be Jackson Bros. or Campbell or almost anyone.

 

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