Rare Robert Minton Taylor 8" Gothic Majolica Wall Tile
Style: Gothic Technique: Embossed majolica Manufacturer: Robert Minton Taylor Dimensions: 8" x 8" Date: 1869 - 74   Super gothic style majolica tile in opaque glazes on a heavy quality buff clay, an intricate design for the style and technique with multiple slender lines and small repeat motifs. Very pleasant in relaxed earth tones, one is tempted to image how it may look in the more vibrant opaque majolica enamels of the times but the likelihood of my having the good fortune to hold one in my hands is remote. Excellent quality, equal to Minton Hollins, Minton Taylor's biscuit was oft favoured by the noted Kensington Gore Studios for decorating. Illustrated on page 53 of 'The Decorated Tile' by J & B Austwick. Robert Minton Taylor, a nephew of Herbert Minton, trained as a tile maker with Minton Hollins, when the Hollins/Campbell partnership dissolved he started his own company which only ran for five years. Then he joined with Colin Campbell of Mintons China Works to form The Campbell Brick & Tile Co., Minton Taylor managed the company for a few years before emigrating to USA, Campbell Tile Co. continued as an independent company until 1963. For more about the complex history of the Minton tile companies click here. Verso free of adhesive residue but a little stained, fully named.
Condition: Excellent Price: £130 (approx. $162) Ref: 02697 One corner chip, about a dozen pinprick marks to the dark glaze, a couple of tiny chips on the raised outlines, tiny glazing imperfections (bubbles) on the edges of the cream glaze, one tiny piece of kiln dirty towards bottom left and one very tiny nearer the centre.	UK Special Delivery +£13 US and World Airsure +£30 Full order information Contact us Currency Converter

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