Selected barbotine tile images for your visual pleasure.
The resulting design is a combination of colour and relief, with the brush strokes adding overall texture. Enamel colours are sometimes used to enhance the final design.
Most barbotine tiles are entirely hand worked, although Marsden Tile Co did perfect a mechanical method of application. These mechanically produced barbotine tiles are easily distinguishable from the hand worked items.
(M135)
Dust pressed, 6 x 6 in, decorated with under glaze barbotine (coloured slips), hand scored back with pattern No 3315 and 1/1 scratched into surface, Sherwin & Cotton c.1880.
(M135r)
The reverse of the tile on the left.
Plastic clay was used for the earlier barbotine tiles as it may have been thought that the design may well not adhere well to a dust-pressed body after firing.
(M206)
Dust pressed, 6 x 6 in, decorated with under glaze barbotine (coloured slips), hand scored pattern No RMB 368 on a Sherwin & Cotton blank, c.1880.
(M207)
Dust pressed, 6 x 6 in, decorated with under glaze barbotine (coloured slips), hand scored back with pattern No 3337 E scratched into surface, Sherwin & Cotton c.1880.
(M208)
Dust pressed, 6 x 6 in, decorated with under glaze barbotine (coloured slips), hand scored back with pattern No 3338 1/1 scratched into surface, Sherwin & Cotton c.1880.
(M209)
Dust pressed, 6 x 6 in, decorated with under glaze barbotine (coloured slips), hand scored back with pattern No 3253 E scratched into surface, Sherwin & Cotton c.1880.
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