Various Designers Gallery, WWW Tile Image Gallery.

Selected images from various designers for your visual pleasure.

(M118)
Dust pressed, 6.1 x 6.1 in, moulded intaglio, marked moulded P, designed by Lewis F Day, Pilkington, c.1905.

(M123)
Plastic clay, each 6 x 6 in, inlaid 2 colour glazed floor tile panel, designed by George Maw, marked Maw & Co Benthall Works Broseley Salop. c.1875.
Clive House, Shrewsbury keeps George Maw's sketch books, in which can be found a pencil drawing of this design.

(Item No.65, page 61 in Pottery and Tiles of the Severn Valley by Michael Messenger - ISBN 07066-0732-5)

(M070)
Dust pressed, 6 x 6 in, underglaze printed with hand painting, artists monogram AH or HA, titled Dick Swiveller Old Curiosity Shop, blank by T & R Boote (name partially scraped off), decorated by Bells Fireplaces Northampton, c.1952.

(M070d)
Detail from the tile on the left showing the decorator's monogram.

(M106d)
Detail from the tile on the right showing the decorator's initials.

(M106)
Dust pressed, 6 x 6 in, underglaze printed with hand painting, artists initials J.A.G, titled Sally Brass Old Curiosity Shop, blank by T & R Boote (name partially scraped off), decorated by Bells Fireplaces Northampton, c.1950.

(M071)
Dust pressed, 4 x 4 in, underglaze hand painting, blank marked RHOTICO ENGLAND (Rhodes Tile Co.), decorated by Packard and Ord from the series 'Birds and Bowls', hand painted on reverse "Peter Jones OX" and "Amanda 6X", designed by Sylvia Packard, c.1935.

(M125)
Dust pressed, 6 x 6 in, printed tile, marked England UCX A, designed by Charles Henry Temple, Maw & Co, c.1904.
This design and others similar were produced by a photographic method of etching the copper plates. The technique was developed by Temple for Maw and Co, designs using the same technique appear on post 1904 Booths tiles, giving rise to the possibility that Temple was designing for both Maws and Booths.

The reverse is featured in Back Chat 14, Glazed Expressions 20, Spring 1990, Fig 5.
Clive House, Shrewsbury keep Temple's notebooks. They contain a sketch by Temple containing the 'bowed headed eagle'.
(Page 102, Pottery and Tiles of the Severn Valley by Michael Messenger - ISBN 07066-0732-5)

(M143)
Dust pressed, 6 x 6 in, titled on face "Mistress Mary Quite Contrary", under glaze transfer printed using two separate transfers, centre panel possibly by Kate Greenaway but this is not verified, T & R Boote, c.1880.

(M152)
Dust pressed, each 6 x 6 in, two from a set of at least six cherub designs, possibly by W S Coleman, printed in glaze, left diagonal portcullis reverse, right Mintons China Works reverse as fig.92 page 138 Austwick, c.1885.

The designs are featured as a vertical panel in the 1885 Minton China Works catalogue (reprint by Richard Dennis 1996).

More tiles by various designers are featured on the
WWW Tile Image Gallery CD

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