Six Pilkington's Lancastrian Persian tiles designed for the RMS Titanic

Six Pilkington's Lancastrian Persian tiles designed for the RMS Titanic, 1912, painted with scrolling floral design in blue on a white ground, impressed and painted marks, damages 15.5cm. square (6)

Provenance

Pilkington's Lancastrian

Private collection

Catalogue Notes

This Persian inspired design by Pilkington's was used in the cooling room of the Turkish Bath on the Titanic liner and her sister ship the RMS Olympic. These specific tiles appear to be extras or even trials which never left the factory. A panel and two spare tiles were loaned to a local gallery and when the company went into receivership in 2010 the tiles were sold by the administrators (without including provenance). Two of these tiles were included in that sale whilst the other four came from a private collection of a friend of John Chambers.

Exhibited

A small exhibition of these designs and original photographs from Pilkington's is currently at the John Chambers Ceramics Room, Peter Scott Gallery, Lancaster University.