Chip top right corner, very tiny chip top and
another left edge, bottom right corner is a glazed
over flaw. Light rubbing on the background at the
bottom of the three raised squares. Perfectly clean
and fabulous brilliant glazes. • Style: Art nouveau A well known art nouveau design almost
invariably monochrome, green, brown, red, blue
etc, rare in multicolour. And what an amazing
colour combination, olive ground with turquoise
and orange peacock eyes and outlines painted in
black with dappling to the backgrouind giving an
arts & crafts effect. The olive ground is
very translucent and the colour well represented
in the picture, other examples of this design
seen in colous which at first appear similar
have a rather more ordinary green ground. Widely attributed to Lewis Day but we are not
sure that is the case, too long to go in to here
but for starters Day famously loathed art
nouveau. The design made by Corn Bros, Richards
and Pilkington, the Pilkington version has a
minor modelling mistake not seen on the Corn and
Richards versions. No matter, it's a fabulous
tile irrespective of who designed it. I can
think of just one other design made by the three
companies and again Richards the best and
Pilkington's a little lacking. Verso Richards diagonal bars, no adhesive
residue just a little grubby.
Condition: Excellent
Price: £395 (approx $602)
Stock number: 03007
• Technique: Moulded majolica
• Manufacturer: Richards
• Dimensions: 6" x 6"
• Date: circa 1905
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