- Style/technique: Victorian majolica
- Dimensions: 6" x 6" x 4, 12" square
overall
- Manufacturer: Maw & Co
- Date: circa 1890
- Condition: Excellent
- Price: £275 (approx $420)
- Ref: 03475
A rare and excellent panel of tiles depicting
a classical variation on the cornucopia theme
where the horn of plenty is replaced by a horn
composed of sheaves of corn. Nicely embossed and
decorated in four glaze colours, top quality
tiles with relief moulded versos to maintain a
consistent thickness of clay and increase
durability. These have a pattern number which
dates from around 1880 but they may be a little
later as such styles remained popular especially
for corporate use.
Nowadays very rare but in their time such
designs adorned many grocery shops, inns, hotels
&etc. Always affixed to walls with extremely
durable portland cement most similar tiles
disappeared with the buildings in which they
were fitted or succumbed to the modernisations
of new shop owners. Always very difficult to
salvage and of dubious cost-efficiency for even
nowadays the hours required to carefully remove
and clean would be difficult to recover and so
these are very rare tiles and unlikely to be
repeated.
A couple of small and a few tiny chips and
occassional light surface marks.
