How tile was made: dust-press, majolica glazing, intaglio and relief molding, encaustic inlay, and the kilns.
Every tile in the collection is a record of how it was made. Run your thumb across a Victorian floor and you feel one method; hold a Low relief to the light and you see another entirely. The century of American architectural tile is, underneath the glaze, a story of technique — borrowed from England,…
It is exactly what it sounds like: a frog’s wedding, told across a panel of tile. A procession of frogs winds through a marsh in their best attitudes, and the whole small ceremony has survived a century in brown-and-cream glaze — complete, and still attached to its original hearth. The procession Read it like a…
Some tiles you sell. Some you keep. This apple-blossom surround from the Low Art Tile Works belongs to the second kind — a set good enough that parting with it never quite makes sense. The design Apple-blossom branches run across the surround in low relief — buds, open flowers, and leaves modeled with the ease…