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175. A Minton & Hollins Art Nouveau tile, moulded in low relief with stylised flower stem glazed yellow and green on a bottle green ground, two other Minton & Hollins Art Nouveau tiles similar, eight other Art Nouveau tiles and four Art Nouveau spacer tiles, impressed marks, 15.5cm. square (15) £150-250
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176. A Burmantofts Faience pottery tile, square, decorated in low relief with a crane wading by tall grasses, glazed midnight blue, a Minton’s Odysseus and the Syrens tile designed by John Moyr Smith, a Minton’s encaustic tile designed by A W N Pugin, an E Smith & Co tile printed with an Aesthetic Movement crane catching a fish, and a collection of tiles, impressed marks, minor damages, (a lot) £200-400 Literature Minton Tiles 1835-1935, Stoke on Trent City Museum & Art Gallery, 1984, page 21 catalogue number 28 for the Minton tile.
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177. A set of four Minton’s encaustic Medieval tiles, diamond shape, decorated with the four evangelists, inside shaped foliate panels, framed, and four other Medieval encaustic tiles, probably Minton’s depicting crusader knight on horseback, two seated kings and two musicians marks concealed by framing, 45cm. square (5) £300-500 Literature Minton Tiles 1835-1935, Stoke on Trent City Museum & Art Gallery, 1984, page 20 catalogue number 9 for a comparable knight tile and page 22 catalogue number 40 for St John tile.
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