Aesthetic Movement Floral Printed & Painted Tile • Condition: Perfect • Price: £125 (approx. $169) • Stock number: 07455 UK Special Delivery +£11 Europe Priority +£16 US and World Priority +£26 Currency Converter Ask a question Perfect condition, minor manufacturing flaws.   • Style: Floral • Technique: Printed & painted • Maker: The Decorative Art Tile Co. • Dimensions: 6" x 6" • Date: 1895 (circa)   In some ways ordinary but the manufacturing is subtly different to most and the design has quite a story to tell. The background is a soft celadon green which is best seen by comparing with the flower petals which have beem painted white underglaze. That gives the impression that the clay is coloured green but it isn't, it is the glaze, it is the contrast with the bright white petals. There is a design, (see here) perhaps the second most popular victorian floral design, that usually is found on green clay although a little darker perhaps sage rather than celadon. There was a legal dispute between the maker, Shewin & Cotton and the manufacturer of this, at the time of the manufacture of this the dispute was a decade or more past. One can almost read the mind of the designer, a designer with all the elements of the popular rival design and arrangeed in a similar manner but so dissimilar that none could call it a copy in any sense. Unfortunately for the maker of this tile it did not sell very well, perhaps a little late in the day for the style I am sure it would have sold better a decade earlier Verso clean, printed pattern number.   Information Tiles For Sale Contacts Order Information