Condition: Excellent Two tiny rim chips and the ocassional touch of
wear to the tip of the rim. Very small chip has
been broken and glued back bottom left corner, well
within the border and not in the least detracting,
surface is near perfect a brilliant and colourful
tile. • Style:
Pastoral A fabulous and rare majolica landscape tile
depicting a pastoral scene of a gentleman
fishing in a gorge. An excellent range of
majolica colours given the limitations of the
times, many inglaze colours when alongside each
other reacted or mixed to produce unsightly
effects so tube line and cloisonne tiles were
produced with high outlines to keep glazes
separate. Without raised outlines glaze colours
often devolve in to a sorry mess but here the
glazes blend wonderfully in a controlled manner
to produce continuous graduating tones. Look at
the foilage of the foreground tree, amazing rnge
of tones all from one colour glaze, the quality
of moulding showing fine, lifelike detail. As
with émaux ombrants the design, modelling
and moulding skills are clear, what is less
clear is the technology of the glazes for
without very specific characteristics in the
glazes the effect could not be achieved. Verso very clean, plain bars, unmarked.
Price: £275 (approx $342)
Ref no: #04103
• Technique: Moulded
majolica
• Maker: Gibbons Hinton
• Dimensions: 6"
x 12"
• Date: circa
1900
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