One tiny, half a dozen very tiny/minute rim
chips, light surface marks • Style: Art
nouveau Amazing skill of the designer, for it is so
wildly asymmetric yet perfectly balanced, the
complexity of the flowerhead and group of tiles
balance by the simplicity and outright power of
the curving stem to the right. Similarly at the
bottom the angularity of the base balances the
frivolity of the cluster of leaves. To my mind
this is the greatest embossed asymmetric art
nouveau tile I have seen to date and it is a
great pleasure to be able to offer them in such
wonderful condition. And yet more the design is suggestive of
music, one may think of free-form jazz. The bold
stems suggestive of clefs and the groups of five
slender stems of staves, the petals being
crotchets. I think it is just fabulous and any
serious collection of art nouveau tiles without
one is lacking a great source of
inspiration. Versos very clean, embossed England and
design registration number, painted pattern
number.
• Condition: Very
good
• Price: £145 (approx $189)
• Stock number: 06754B
• Technique: Embossed majolica
• Maker:
Henry Richards
• Dimensions:
6" x 6"
• Date: 1907
(registered)
One of the most outstanding art nouveau
tiles of all time, rarely found as one may
expect for such a flamboyant asymmetric design.
One of a group of five registered at the same
time, one proved to be a very popular design
still made in the 1930s, this the second rarest
of the group.
