Tile Gallery
Selected geometric tiles for your visual pleasure.
Inlaid 8
(M115)
Plastic clay, 4.7 x 4.7 in, inlaid 2 colour unglazed floor tile, unmarked, from near Sudbury Hall. Possibly Repton 14th century.
(TACS publication Glazed Expressions No.19 Winter 1989, the article by Dr Michael Hodder features this design.)
Maw dust pressed inlaid tile
(M254)
Dust pressed, 6 x 3 in, inlaid 2 colour glazed floor tile, marked Maw & Co Broseley. c.1862.
From a fireplace in the now ruinous Riber Castle, Matlock, Derbyshire.
Inlaid 7
(M114)
Plastic clay, 4 x 4 in, inlaid 4 colour unglazed floor tile, marked Patent Architectural Pottery Co. c.1870.
Art deco tile
(M087)
Dust pressed, 4 x 4 inch,
stencilled with matt overglaze colours and gilded,
marked BCM/T & R B 932 B Made in England
(with the greyhound device of T and R Boote), September 1932.
Balfour & Co tile
(M232)
Dust pressed, 6 x 6 in, moulded design, moulded mark Balfour & Co Longton Mikado Rd. No.28703, in pencil Mikado M 2125. Design registered 1885.
Cleveland tile
(M238)
Dust pressed, 6 x 6 in, moulded design in high relief, moulded mark Cleveland on a barred reverse, moulded E on bar below Cleveland, Cleveland Tile Company Liverpool Road Stoke, c.1905

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