• Style:
Regency/Greek
• Technique: Transfer print border and
hand painted design
• Maker: Minton Hollins
• Dimensions:
8" x 8"
• Date: 1870 (design registered)
A group of three delicate and refined regency
style tiles with posies of flowers apparently
(as I am not an expert horticulturalist)
representing the four seasons set against a
regency green ground and within a greek pattern
border. The design registered in 1870, this will
be the greek pattern border, registering border
designs was quite common at the time.
For winter we have holly and mistletoe, nice
for a christmas theme and in so being very rare,
for christmas themed tiles are virtually
nonexistent. Christmas was barely celebrated in
the nineteenth century, Charles Dickens is often
credited with having invented the modern
Christmas.
Summer is represented by wheat and
strawberries, the posy of bright flowers I take
to be spring so there will likely be an autumn
somewhere. Not for sure though for if a group of
three was required the artist could well have
selected pictures to copy from a pattern or art
reference book or may have used such sources to
inspire their own creations.
Versos very clean but some slight stain,
embossed Minton, Hollins etc, printed diamond
registration mark.
