|
No major damge just minor surface glaze chips
and wear around the rim, opacity in the glaze
bottom left corner is a manufacturing flaw. • Style/technique: Pictorial Print A bold design printed in dark brown on white
of the aesthetic or one could say arts &
crafts genre and with a definite gothic
influence. This I believe to be a very rare tile though
I must confess that full understanding escapes
me for though apparently english in all respects
and indeed bought in England it bears the mark
of the International Tile Co. The International
Tile Co operated from Brooklyn, New York and
their tile usually have a characteristic mark
with their initials embossed verso. Virtually
all of their tiles that I have seen are of the
aesthetic period based around the decade of the
1880s and many with a distinct japanesque feel.
This is a first for me with a very english
gothic inspired design. Furthermore the biscuit looks english
Campbell Tile Co being my instinct, it has a
printed mark, faint but legible, saying
International Tile Co. With their initials
usually found embossed I had taken it that the
made their own biscuit but this is not a given
for most manufacturers will apply branding and
usually only for the cost of making the special
pattern plate. So maybe they did not make their
own biscuit and were, as indeed the name
suggests, importers of tiles. Or perhaps, and
the style of the design gives this credence, it
was an early tile made for them in England and
later they made their own. Anyways it is an
interesting and decorative piece and in my
albeit limited experience of american printed
tiles a rarity. For it to be found in England
too is a little odd, maybe one that 'escaped'
from the tileworks. If any knowledgeable collector can add I will
gladly amend the description. Verso perfectly clean generic grid with
filled die in the position that Campbells used
for their compass badge, International Tile Co,
printed. The image is full size at 72 dpi (about 430
pixels wide) in maximum quality JPEG format, 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.
|
|||||||||||||||||
