Very tiny chips top corners, touches of rubbing
to high points, other very minor marks. Style: Art
Nouveau This is a design classic, or it should be, it
isn't because it is very rare, a wonderful take
on the triple tulip design genre. You could have
thousands of art nouveau tiles in your
collection and have never seen anything like
this. Very high relief, embossed and impressed,
impressed rather than embossed outline so
avoiding the white 'cartoonish' effect, fabulous
colours including blue background and burnt
orange flowers. There are high relief
multicolour embossed art nouveau tiles from Maw,
some by Carter which were made by Maw, high
relief and impressed art nouveau from Malkin but
only monochrome, high relief and multicolour but
not art nouveau from Gibbons Hinton. All of
those are rare in great part due to technical
difficulties so it's unsurprising that this is
very rare. Simpsons is an interesting and somewhat
mysterious company, the scale of their
production is unknown. There are no design or
engineering characteristics which identify the
wares, they made many different types of tiles
and seemingly not very many of them. They made
some technically excellent tiles but also 'cheap
and cheerful' tiles. They made a copy of a
Mintons which is just as good as the original,
perhaps better, they appear side by side in a
book whose author didn't pay much attention to
what he was doing. This is the only such high
relief tile seen by them, interestingly they
also produced the same design as a transfer
print. Versos very clean, unmarked save for
painted pattern number Three minute rim chips, touches of rubbing to
high points, other very minor marks. Slight wear two corners,
Condition: Fine
Price: £180 (approx. $230)
Stock number: 06532B
Technique: Embossed
majolica
Maker: T. A. Simpson
Dimensions: 6"
x 6"
Date: 1905 (circa)
Condition: Fine
Price: £180 (approx. $230)
Stock number: 06532C
Condition: Near
perfect
Price: £200 (approx. $256)
Stock number: 06532E
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