AESTHETIC TILE BY MINTON HOLLINS, BIRDS IN QUADRANTS. Style/technique: Aesthetic Flow Blue Manufacturer: Minton Hollins Dimensions: 6" x 6" Date: Circa 1885 A beautifully detailed aesthetic period tile with 2 vignettes of birds, a typical crane and rather more unusual woodpecker with alternating vignettes of flowers. The tiles have lovely flow blue colouring which is quite rare on tiles, shown to it's best on a bright white body. The design was registered in ...click for details
VICTORIAN AESTHETIC MOVEMENT TILE with Four Maidens personifying the Four Seasons. A beautiful dust pressed late Victorian tile made by E. Smith, c. 1885 (According to Terence Lockett in his book on Victorian Tiles, p.80. The central square depicts a ram’s head “Aries” from the zodiac series .Four rectangular panels make up the border containing the four maidens of the seasons. Condition is excellent, no chips or cracks, no restorations but some normal crazing. The tile measures 6 by 6 inche ...click for details
WEDGWOOD AESTHETIC MOVEMENT BLUE AND WHITE TILE
Wedgwood blue and white tile, 6" square w. floral squares within the square. The squares of the wide border are geometricized flowers and lives whereas the central larger square has botanically correct flowers. Josiah Wedgwood & Sons, Etruria. ETRURIA impressed on the back of the tile. The name of a prominent retailer around 1900 is also marked: Maple & Co. Tottenham Court Road, London. Tile has a minor edge nibble, approx. ¼”.
AESTHETIC MOVEMENT PASSION FLOWER TILE by Mintons China Works, Stoke on Trent, Walbrook Here is another Passion Flower tile from the collection. This time it is part of a Japanese influenced design, with asymmetrically placed flowers against a cracked ice background. The tile is 8 inches square and was made c. 1890. It has a dark brown transfer placed on the white clay background.
VICTORIAN AESTHETIC BROWN SUNFLOWER TRANSFER TILE. Even though the central motif is a large sunflower head, typical of summer, the loosely arranged border with its tall tiger lily stem and yellow daffodil in Aesthetic jardinieres as well as the cherry blossom boughs represent spring. The bottom right hand corner has a stylized sun with its burning rays. The design is asymmetrical, influenced by Japanese design, and the flowers are botanically correct. The tile is 6" square and in excellen ...click for details
HEMIXEM ART NOUVEAU WISTERIA BLOSSOMS TILE. The Wisteria blossoms with their shades of mauve and purple are among the most beautiful of the spring flowers. In this example, the purple blossoms gently curve against the stark white background, anchored by the gray brow vines. Hemixem, a Belgian company, was one of the foremost tile makers in Europe at the end of the 19th Century. The tile is 6" square and in excellent condition.
AESTHETIC JAPANESQUE BOTANICAL PASSION FLOWER TILE ON CRACKED ICE BACKGROUND. The tile design is a transfer in a dark navy, almost black,on a cream clay. The asymmetrica; design on the cracked ice background is very Japanesque. The dar round circles are hard to to interpret, and may represent drops of water. The tile is 6" square and in excellent condition. This is one of several passion flower tiles in the collection. The religious (Christian) symbolism of the parts of the flower wer ...click for details
RARE AESTHETIC JAPANESQUE TILE BY MAW & CO. Here is a beautiful and complex geometric and botanical tile with an end result that is so tightly organized that at first glance it looks simple and clear. The muted transfer colors are primarily rust brown and gray green. The space of the 6" tile is defined by (A) a fine lined edged border (B) the division of the space into three horizontal bands, and (C) overlaid by two large circular cartouches containing a branch with two seed pods ...click for details
F. Lewis Day, Olive Lustre Tiles, English Arts and Crafts Peacock Feather Tile by F. Lewis Day This moulded green lustre tile has an overall repeating stylized peacock feathers with wispy strands. It is an excellent example of English pre Art Nouveau art tiles. A photograph of a wall area using these tiles appears in one of Lewis F. Day’s books on Pattern. The combination of the lustre and the moulded tile give the pattern great depth and contrast, due to the pooled glazing in the crevice ...click for details
RARE AESTHETIC TRANSFER TILE, Dogs warming beside the Fire. Manufacturer: T & R Boote Dimensions: 6" x 6" Date: Circa 1880 This image of greyhounds warming themselves in front of a winter's open log fire is a superb example of this uncommon series of times of the day and seasons of the year. This most stylized and expert artwork creates an image of dogs beside the fire, very much as humans would sit beside the fire. The blue transfer on a white background is ...click for details
