T & R Boote & Co. - Circa 1886
"Blue Aster Floral"
-- Victorian * Transfer Print & Tint * 6"x 6" --
-- An Original Antique Tile --
"Presenting a popular Victorian floral design tile, of blue Aster like flowers, created by T. & R. Boote & Co., circa 1886, in excellent condition."
• Style:
Victorian Floral
• Technique: Transfer Printed and Tinted
• Maker: T.& R. Boote & Co.
• Dimensions:
6" x 6" (x2)
• Date: 1886 (circa)
A popular design transfer printed floral tile during the late Victorian and early Edwardian times. One of many such floral designs, featuring popular English flowers, such as the Blue Aster, which is placed within complex, Rococo pattered, borders...and most often found in used as fireplace surrounds in Victorian England.
Made by T&R Boote, one of the top
quality fireplace tile specialists of the time. Fortunately, our stock of these lovely tiles was discovered fitted into the backsplash of an old English washstand, where they escaped all the hazards of the fireplace, to survive in their current, excellent, condition.
Because this tile's source was a long vanished piece of furniture and not a coal fireplace, the back side of this tile, or "Verso," is very clean, free of smoke and soot stains, and stamped with its pattern/colorway number: 444.
This 137 year old tile is as good as they get and displays as well as it originally did, when it was first installed in 1886.
**We have several copies of this exact tile in stock. So, if you wish to own more tiles of this same design and colorway, just let us know. We shall let you browse them all, choose what you will, and, then, create a special eBay listing to allow you to own your selected tiles, while maintaining your eBay's buyer protections.
Please examine the provided high-resolution scans of these antique tiles to determine their exact state.
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