Couple minute rim chips, very minor surface
marks. Style: Art
Nouveau It is not often that art nouveau tiles are
found in great english country houses but here
is one. A design seen from time to time, a great
design but for the most part let down by the
colouring, I think this colouring is great. The
basic multuicolour variation of most all tiles
is white background, green leaves, yellow
flower(s) this having blue flowers elevates it
so much from yellow. I think it is great design with good, square,
Mackintosh style roses, I used to deal with
quite a few similar when restoring antique
stained glass windows. That the two loops and
three leaves above the flowers are not coloured
in is a definite plus for what remains is a very
stylish, very Glasgow design, almost formal with
near square flower outlines, erect stems and
regular curves but the flower petal shapes and
eccentricity of the blue throw it wide open. Versos perfectly clean, embossed S, heraldic
shield badge, England and registered (for the
trade mark of the badge). From the sale at Wormington Grange: This is arguably the most important
collection of English country house furniture to
come to auction in recent decades. A classic
country house conglomeration which, in the best
tradition of these old-school sales, is both
eclectic and curated all at once. The home until recently of John Evetts - the
grandson of Lord Ismay, Sir Winston Churchill's
famed military strategist - it is sure to be
bursting at the seams with historical treasures,
not least because Evetts' day job was furnishing
the homes of the Landmark Trust. 'I collected everything that is in this sale
specifically for this house with an enormous
amount of care and love,' Evetts said of the
auction. 'I wanted to turn it into a home that
was furnished very much as it might have been at
the time it was built.' Article
about the sale in Tatler, article
about the sale in Daily Mail And so there was some discussion as to why Mr
Evetts would collect a comparatively ordinary
selection of tiles, I believe the answer to be
more prosaic than that, the collection of tiles
were simply those removed from the house over
the last century. The most updated fixtures in houses are
sanitary wares, fireplaces and cooking
appliances and spaces, most of the tiles came
from hearths and some originated in washstands.
Fireplaces would have been updated as originals
wore out and new technology offered better
solutions, not in the state rooms of course
where the originals would be preserved and
rarely used, but in the day to day rooms. The
washstand tiles most likely came from
redecorations, quite some years ago now the main
reason for people selling washstands was that
the colour of the tiles did not match the new
decor, in such a fine house there would be a
tradesman readily available to fit new tiles in
to existing furniture and so the removed tiles
were stored, in the attic, cellar, stable block
or elsewhere on the estate. Couple minute rim chips, very minor surface
marks. Only exceedingly minor marks. Very tiny chip top left corner, touch of
roughness top edge nearby. Four very tiny, two minute rim chips, surface
very near perfect.
Condition: Fine
Price: £150 (approx. $187)
Stock number: 07237B
Technique: Embossed
majolica
Maker: T A Simpson
Dimensions: 6"
x 6"
Date: 1910 (circa)
Condition: Near
perfect
Price: £180 (approx. $225)
Stock number: 07237C
Condition: Near
perfect
Price: £170 (approx. $212)
Stock number: 07237D
Condition: Very
fine
Price: £160 (approx. $200)
Stock number: 07237E
Condition: Fine
Price: £150 (approx. $187)
Stock number: 07237G
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