British Art Pottery - 27th November 2019
Lot 216
A set of twelve Minton Rustic Humours tiles
Estimate £300 - £500 | Hammer £450
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Description
A set of twelve Minton Rustic Humours tiles, printed in brown with character roundels, mounted in ebonised wood mirror frame, comprising pride, humility, ignorance, industry, suspicion, ambition, contentment, affection, terror, greed, rage, and idleness, impressed marks to reverse, 70cm square.
Literature
Terence A Lockett Collecting Victorian Tiles, ACC Books, page 182 plate 49 for two comparable tiles.