Arts & Crafts - 20th June 2012

Lot 186

Two Pilkington's Lancastrian lustre tiles exhibited in a fireplace at the 1908 Franco-British...

Estimate £100 - £200 | Hammer £220

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Description

Two Pilkington's Lancastrian lustre tiles exhibited in a fireplace at the 1908 Franco-British Exhibition, London, modelled in low relief with a cypress tree before scrolling foliage, in copper on a deep red ground, painted numbers to reverse 15.5cm. square Literature A J Cross Pilkington's Royal Lancastrian Pottery and Tiles Richard Dennis, page 36 plate 38a for a similar tile and page 37 plate 39 for a photograph of the Franco-British exhibition 1908. Provenance Fine Art Society