• Style:
Greek
• Technique: Multicolour block
print
• Designer: Christopher Dresser
• Maker: Mintons
• Dimensions: 8" x
8"
• Date: circa 1895
• Condition: Very fine
• Price: £400 (approx $566)
• Ref: 05165
A super bold design and in excellent bright
colours, rarely seen in this colourway, rarely
seen at all but most often in browns. Made by
Mintons the design found in Studies in Design by
Christopher Dresser. Well printed and most
brilliantly glazed.
Verso very clean just a touch of stain,
embossed Mintons etc.
The British Museum has a group of four in
their collection with pattern number 2417
indicating an introduction date of 1890, in the
brown colourway it has pattern number 1472
indicating an introduction date of 1875, it was
not uncommon for Mintons to introduce new
colourways many years after the first.
The design is also seen in the Norfolk Iron
Works catalogue sheet reproduced in William de
Morgan Tiles by Jon Catleugh.
Very few Dresser designs on tiles are known
although many are attributed even stated as "by
Dresser" in the literature most of which has
been been written by pottery dealers. There are
no designs for tile by Dresser known in the
records despite the wish of many, for an
extensive examination of the subject see
this
page.
A few very tiny losses to the rim, surface
very near perfect.
