Style:
Nature study
Technique: Painted
Maker: Minton*
Dimensions:
8" x 8"
Date: 1875 (circa)
Condition: Very fine
Price: £340 (approx. $482)
Ref: 07194
A hand painted studio tile of a bird in
flight and the most excellent quality all
underglaze painted and brilliantly glazed.
Verso very clean, it is the typical Mintons
(China Works) diagonal grip with the text both
inbetween the rails and on the badge erased. So
a Mintons' blank yet the decorator thought the
Mintons' branding was not beneficial to the sale
of their product. Whether they erased the mark
themselves or ordered unmarked from Mintons, or
from Campbell who made many of Mintons' tiles,
is conjecture, the painter considered its brand
superior to that of Mintons and hustifiably so
given the result we see before us.
In very fine condition the tile suffering
little in its near century and a half of
existence, the most clear chip to the rim mid
right is a glazed manufacturing flaw, all marks
are very minor and insignificant. Though there
are a slight losses to the decoration at the
edge of the brown upper right and at top right
corner this is because the stain adhered to the
glaze a little better than it did to the clay,
there are very slight cleaning marks near the
rim.