Émeaux Ombrants Technique Gallery, WWW Tile Image Gallery.

Selected émeaux ombrants tile images for your visual pleasure.

Émeaux ombrants means literally lights and shadows, and it is the use of light and shadows which gives this decorative technique its distinction.
The making of the master mould usually involves a photographic process, but simple subjects could be tackled by a skillful sculpturer's hand. The final effect is obtained from the use of a semi-transparent glaze which pools in the deeper areas of the moulded blank and is thinner of the more raised areas. The depth of glaze being directly proportional to the depth of colour (or darkness).
Continuous tone shading can be obtained with a combination of a good moulded blank and the correct glaze, resulting in a photo-like result.

(M037)
Dust pressed, émeaux ombrants, 12.0 x 6.0 in, marked with a Sherwin & Cotton logo and the words Trade Mark England, early Geo. Cartlidge, entitled Winter Gleanings, c.1898.

(M024)
Dust pressed, 6 x 6 in, émeaux ombrants, marked Sherwin Patent Lock Back, patt m341. Sherwin & Cotton Hanley Staffs, c.1892

(M005)
Dust pressed, 4.3 x 4.3 in, intaglio émeaux ombrants, marked C. PARDEE. WKS P.A.N.J, Perth Amboy, New Jersey, c.1893.

(M050)
Dust pressed, 6 x 6 in, émeaux ombrants,
J C Edwards Ruabon c.1890.

(M051)
Dust pressed, 6 x 6 in, émeaux ombrants,
J C Edwards Ruabon c.1890.

(M149)
Dust pressed, 6 x 6 in, moulded design probably by C F A Voysey, with subtle use of émeaux ombrants giving a very pleasing image, Marsden Tile Co Dale Street Burslem, c.1905.

(M185)
Dust pressed, 6 x 8 in, émeaux ombrants, portrait of Pius X, Sherwin & Cotton. 1910.
This tile was made to commemorate the Pope's visit to Britain in 1910.

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