Tiles

1 complete machine pressed glazed relief tile with fleur-de-lys style design in white with yellow/green detail on a celadon green background, 2 incomplete machine pressed relief tiles with stylised...

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Two cream, tan and brown under-glaze transfer-printed border tiles with a stylised flower and plant design, and horizontal borders. A raised inscription on the reverse includes the maker's name,...

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Square tile with olive coloured crackle glaze.

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Rectangular machine pressed glazed relief tile with brown floral borders. The middle contains yellow and white chrysanthemums and tan leaves against a blue background. A small piece is missing from...

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Two teapot brown crackle glazed border tiles. These tiles are typical example of the house style used to decorate many of Sainsbury's new branches from the 1890s until after World War Two, and would...

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Three teapot brown colour glazed border tiles and two blue-green impressed colour glazed border tiles. The glaze has pooled in the recessed areas of each tile creating dark patches of colour that...

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Two teapot brown and turquoise colour glazed border tiles. They would have been placed on the walls and were part of the house style which was used to decorate many of Sainsbury's new branches from...

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White and light blue printed under-glaze border tile with a stylised flower, plant and grape design, and horizontal borders. A raised inscription on the reverse is almost illegible but it may give...

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Two triangular, teapot brown, colour glazed tiles. A raised inscription on the reverse gives the maker's name, 'Minton, Hollins, & Co'. The tiles may have been used on the front of counters at 6...

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Machine pressed relief wall tile with a stylised organic design in white with tan detail on a celadon green background. Reverse embossed with 'MINTON TILES' and 'MADE IN ENGLAND'. Typical of the...

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Glazed machine pressed relief wall tile with a stylised dolphin design in white with tan detail on a celadon green ground. Portion of left lower corner broken off. Reverse embossed with 'MINTON...

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Machine pressed glazed tile with stylised organic design.

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Machine pressed glazed tile. Transfer printed design in blue and white featuring a symmetrical image of ornate urns, cherub's face, candle and stylised leaves and flowers.

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Machine pressed glazed relief tile. Design features a stylised flower in rust on a brown ground with stylised scallop shell pattern.

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Machine pressed glazed tile. Transfer printed design features a stylised flowers and leaf pattern in brown on a beige ground.

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Machine pressed glazed tile. Transfer printed design features a central stylised floral pattern in brown on a cream ground and a spotted border with a bud-like design at each corner. Inscription on...

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Moulded relief tile featuring a bird perched on orange blossom branches design. The tile has a red coloured glaze ground with further coloured glazes over the raised areas of the design; brown for the...

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Moulded relief tile featuring a bird perched on orange blossom branches design. The tile has a red coloured glaze ground with further coloured glazes over the raised areas of the design; brown for the...

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Moulded relief tile featuring a bird perched on orange blossom branches design. The tile has a red coloured glaze ground with further coloured glazes over the raised areas of the design; brown for the...

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Moulded relief tile featuring a bird perched on orange blossom branches design. The tile has a red coloured glaze ground with further coloured glazes over the raised areas of the design; brown for the...

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Moulded relief tile featuring a bird perched on orange blossom branches design. The tile has a red coloured glaze ground with further coloured glazes over the raised areas of the design; brown for...

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Rectangular machine pressed border tiles with a transfer printed design featuring a stylised flower and plant and horizontal borders. A raised inscription on the reverse includes the maker's name,...

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Section of wall tile consisting of rectangular machine pressed glazed relief tile with brown floral borders. The middle contains yellow and white chrysanthemums and tan leaves against a blue...

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Section of wall tile consisting of a fragment of machine pressed glazed relief tile featuring an organic design in white with yellow/green detail on a celadon green background. Original cement work...

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Section of four partial cream glazed relief tiles with stylised crown imperial design. Still attached to original cement work.

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Section of three partial cream glazed relief tiles with stylised crown imperial design. Still attached to original cement work.

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Square white tiles with a symmetrical dark blue transfer-printed design of flowers and scrolls under a colourless glaze. There are numbers inscribed on the reverse of both tiles. This style of tile...

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Twenty-one whole border tiles and two border tile fragments. White rectangular tiles with a dark blue and light blue transfer-printed design under a colourless glaze. Oval central designs with images...

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Section of tiled wall consisting of 1 complete and 2 partial rectangular machine pressed glazed relief tiles with brown floral borders. The middle contains yellow and white chrysanthemums and tan...

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Glazed relief border tile with an Art Nouveau design featuring a yellow stylised flower with green leaves on a white ground. According to a secondary source, this tile was taken from the Sainsbury's...

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Hand painted glazed tile panel. Originally consisted of 10 individual tiles depicting a heron poised on a water edge surrounded by reeds and water lilies with 2 birds perched in a tree and 2 swallows...

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White, rectangular, border tiles with a dark blue and light blue transfer-printed design under a colourless glaze. Oval central designs with images of fruit and blossom surrounded by oval borders of...

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Two sections of tiled wall featuring fragments of chrysanthemum border tiles around fragments of a central motif of stylised crown imperial tiles. The border tiles are machine pressed relief tiles...

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Edging tiles with a curved section and a teapot brown coloured glaze. There is a raised inscription on the reverse of several tiles, 'MINTON, HOLLINS & Co. PATENT TILE WORKS STOKE ON TRENT'. This type...

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Edging tiles with a curved section and a teapot brown coloured glaze. There is a raised inscription on the reverse of several tiles, 'M H & Co.' This type of tile was used in Sainsbury's branches as...

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Fragment of machine pressed relief border tile featuring a heart design with a brown coloured glaze over the top.

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Glazed border tiles. Inscribed on reverse 'Minton Hollins and Co. 9 5'.

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3 curved plain cream glazed tiles and 1 flat tile which appears to have been cut off a larger tile. Inscribed on reverse 'M H & Co 2 2 7'

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Glazed border tiles.

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