Selected Arts & Crafts tile images for your visual pleasure.
The Arts & Crafts Movement was formed by a group of British artists and architects. The movement shunned mechanical mass produced items in favour of a medieval approach to art and craft. Items were totally hand made, with a back to nature attitude. The group had a profound effect on all aspects of design, particularly tiles. Unfortunately, their products were expensive in their day, thus limiting the market to all but the wealthy.
(M178, M179) Tin glazed earthenware blank, 6 x 6 in, hand painted quartered design known as "Longden" attributed to Philip Webb. c.1870. M178 (left) is an original by Morris Marshall Faulkener & Co, M179 (right) is a Dutch copy commissioned by Morris & Co for the UK market, made by the Utrecht manufacturer Ravesteijn.	(M023) Tin glazed earthenware blank, 6 x 6 in., design known as "BBB", de Morgan. c.1890.
(M180, M181) Tin glazed earthenware blank, 6 x 6 in, sunflower design by William Morris, c.1875. M180 (left) tile manufactured by William De Morgan for Morris Marshall Faulkner & Co, executed in stencilled red lustre, on an English blank. M181 (right) is a Dutch copy commissioned by Morris & Co for the UK market, made by the Utrecht manufacturer Ravesteijn, on a Dutch blank.	(M022) Dust pressed, red lustre, 8 x 8 in, unmarked. prob designed by Halsey Ricardo. de Morgan. c.1890.
(M182, M183) Tin glazed earthenware blank, 6 x 6 in, daisy design, 1870s. M182 (left) is an original by Morris Marshall Faulkener & Co, hand painted in blue and yellow, on an Dutch blank. M183 (right) is a Dutch copy commissioned by Morris & Co for the UK market, made by the Utrecht manufacturer Ravesteijn, on a Dutch blank.	(M184) Plastic clay, 6 x 6 in, handpainted, blank marked Architectural Pottery Poole Dorset, de Morgan, c.1880. A strong vertical design, certainly designed for fire grate cheeks.
(M154) Plastic clay, 6 x 6 in, buff body with relief moulded clover-like design, the surface hand decorated with a tulip design executed in ruby and dark green lustres, combed back with impressed P, Pilkington, c.1905. As a result of the success of William de Morgan's lustreware, other tile firms began to introduce a limited number of lustre decorated tiles. These firms included Pilkington, JC Edwards, Craven Dunnill and Maws. This tile is part of a fireplace panel similar to those exhibited at the 1906 Paris World Fair. A tentative attribution would be Lewis Day or Richard Joyce.	(M004) Plastic clay, 5.8 x 5.9 in, underglaze hand decorated, pattern 3878, marked Craven Dunnill & Co Limited Jackfield Nr Ironbridge Salop. c.1880.
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