A popular design - backs - a photo on Flickriver

This Art Nouveau design was popular in the last few years of the 19th and first few years of the 20th centuries - here are three versions, each by a different company. On the right, Henry Abraham Ollivant, in the centre the Cleveland Tile Company, on the left unknown. It was common practice to copy designs in Stoke, and after three years of registration it was perfectly legal. If you look at these tiles, they all differ in detail so are pressed from three different moulds. Which came first? Possibly the Ollivant, the Cleveland tile is weakest and the version on the left has lost subtle details. I think another company also made this design, so they could all be copies of the original.

The Ollivant tile has the 'OCV' monogram (Ollivant of Cliff Vale); the Cleveland tile has eight rails like Steele and Wood but an inset panel in one of the gutters; the unknown tile has small 'Bs' in the corners, more research needed!

If you are interested in this sort of thing, perhaps the Tiles & Architectural Ceramics Society is up your street - take a look at tilesoc.org.uk/tacs/

Taken on: March 7, 2021

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Sets appears in: • tile backs • Virtual Pottery Museum

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