Only extremely slight marks. Style/technique: Pictorial print The court jester fails to amuse the ugly
sisters from the series of tiles depicting
scenes from the Cinderella story printed in a
nice warm brown on a pale buff clay. This is
similar clay to that used by Booth for their
'glaze that does not craze' this also not crazed
due to the semi-vitrified nature of the
clay. Malkin were a great tile company, widely
unrecognised but superb tilemakers. They started
making tiles in 1866 and were one of the few
tiles makers to stay in business for over a
century finally falling in to the hands of
Johnsons (who else) in 1968. They did super
quality designs and manufacturing quality
throughout all the eras, more picture series
than are generally known about and some
excellent art nouveau tiles. Verso very clean, Malkin's well known offset
grid and centre ring, unmarked.
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