Half a dozen very tiny > minute surface chips
near the rim, very slight surface marks.
Excellently bright and clean and in good
colour. Style/technique: Pictorial Print An excellent tile with a good illustration of
a watermill, very competant original artwork and
engraving equal, perhaps superior to similar
works by more famous names like Mintons and
William Wise. Signed with the monogram EJ or EJP near
bottom left which is apparently incomplete for
on printed tile landscapes of similar style and
of similar date the signature E J B Evans is
found. This name is unknown to us but is likely
to be the artist rather than the engraver and an
independent working in the Stoke on Trent area
as the other tiles are by The Decorative Art
Tile Co. There was an artist in the late 19thC
called J B Evans who specialised in landscapes,
so this may be the son or daughter perhaps
producing engravings from the father's work
rather than being the artist. This view appears on a printed tile from
Mintons and hand painted on a tea pot stand from
Maw. The Mintons likely from the 'Waterside
Architecture' series dating from 1891 and
probably engraved by Swetnam. Almost any
landscape from Mintons gets attributed to Wise
but it seems he did few only one being signed
and that as usual a copy of a typical tourist
spot almost certainly copied from a book. The
'Waterside Architecture' series can not be by
Wise for they were introduced two years after
his death which was preceded by a period of
illness. Many landscapes on victorian tiles have
be traced back to books and likely virtually all
have their origins there. *Verso spotlessly clean with six bars and
without clue as to the maker however this tile
is most likely made by Ollivant or Wooliscroft
due to the style of the corner motifs. Austwick
shows a similar picture from Ollivant which also
appears in the Minton 'Waterside Architecture'
series. The image is full size at 72 dpi (about 430
pixels wide) in maximum quality JPEG format and on
screen is about the size as it would be in real
life at the same distance. 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.
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