tile
- Museum number
- 1980,0307.36.a-g
- Description
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Seven earthenware border tiles, dust-pressed cream body; block-printed in buff and brown with the design of fleshy leaf 'palmettes' and flowerheads in arcades below a border of rosettes and zigzags. Maker's mark on reverse.
- Production date
- 1870-1880 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Length: 15.30 centimetres
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Width: 15.30 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The design has been attributed to Dresser on stylistic grounds alone. For an example printed in brown but on a white body, see no. 1580 G, sheet 18 in a Minton catalogue of c 1885 (reprinted by Richard Dennis Publications, Shepton Beauchamp, 1996). The design was also noted as no.1518 in a pattern book held in the Minton archive. See also 1980,0307.146 and 1980,0307.68.
- Location
- On display (G47/wall)
- Acquisition date
- 1980
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 1980,0307.36.a-g
