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Source Description:

Printed underglaze and hand coloured in green, brown and yellow with a 'Japonaiserie' pattern, Sherwin & Cotton, c.1880.

 

Shape Type: Miscellaneous

Pattern Type: Chinese, Asian and Other Exotic Themes

Date: c. 1885-1905

Dimensions:

  • Length: 6.00 in (15.24 cm)
  • Width: 6.00 in (15.24 cm)

Maker: George Woolliscroft and Sons.

Description:

Transfer printed and hand coloured dust-pressed tile with a Japonnaiserie design of a fan, a bamboo table and other motifs printed in brown with polychrome tinting on an off-white ground. This tile is in identical style to a set produced by Sherwin and Cotton in the 1880s, and is probably plagiarised from that source.

 


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