Lot 750
  • 750

Henry Stacy Marks for Minton, 1829-1898

Estimate
600 - 800 GBP
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Description

  • 'Seven Ages of Man', Tile Panel
  • two tiles with impressed circular marks MINTON
  • printed and painted tiles in a wooden frame
  • frame: 64.5cm., 25 3/8 in. square; each tile: 15.2cm., 6in. square
  • Designed in 1882.
with Shakespearean figures illustrating the various stages in a man's life, one panel cracked and restored

Provenance

Sotheby's, London, 30 November 1984, lot 339

Literature

Jill & Brian Austwick, The Decorated Tile, An Illustrated History of English Tile-making and Design, London, 1980, p.101, n. 275 for the pattern for "The Lean and Slippered Pantaloon"
Terence A. Lockett, Collecting Victorian Tiles, London, 1979, p.137, n.175 for the printed design from the Minton tile pattern book

Condition

The cement on the reverse probably hiding other MINTON marks The middle left panel craked and restored. Traces of wear over the colours of the panels and to the frame. Some joints slightly opening.
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