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Selected tiles by Decorative Art Tile Co. for your visual pleasure

(M038)
Dust pressed, 12.1 x 6.0 in, combination of print and hand painting, artists initials look like IHHS, marked with logo of Decorative Art Tile Co, c.1895.

(M039)
Dust pressed, 11.7 x 5.8 in, underglaze print, titled Inverlachy Castle, marked with logo of Decorative Art Tile Co, c.1895. (Also found on 6x6 tiles)

(M003)
Dust pressed, 6 x 6 in, overglaze transfer print, hand coloured, unmarked, Decorative Art Tile Co, c.1895.

(M079)
Dust pressed, 6 x 6 in, transfer printed, hand coloured, marked A 48 Rd No (unreadable), Decorative Art Tile Co, c.1890.

(M059)
Dust pressed, 6 x 6 in, moulded to imitate tube lining, poorly decorated, blank marked England, diagonal barrs, Decorative Art Tile Co, c.1900.

(M131)
Dust pressed, 6 x 6 in, printed under glaze, after Hablot Knight Browne (Phiz) drawing for the first edition of The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens (1841) titled "Mutual delight of Kit and the pony", target back, T & R Boote blank, decorated by Decorative Art Tile Co, c.1890.
See TACS Glazed Expressions 18, page 5 for the same picture set within a circular border.

(M132)
As M131 but titled "Surprise of Mr. Swiveller on beholding the Marchioness".

M131 and M132 are decorated with a standard industrial transfer which was used by more than one manufacturer and usually reserved for the decoration of tableware.

(M224)
Dust pressed, 6 x 6 in, transfer printed and hand coloured under glaze, target back with printed pattern No 22 and registration mark, T & R Boote blank, design registered on 13 January 1882 to Decorative Art Tile Co Hanley.
This tile was also made with the lady facing right.

(M226)
Dust pressed, 6 x 6 in, transfer printed and hand coloured over glaze, target back with printed 5, T&R Boote blank, decorated by decorative Art Tile Co Hanley, c.1881.
This design appears in Austwick (page 92, fig.241) as Mintons China Works.

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