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Planter made from decorative tiles - 1880
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Planter made from decorative tiles
This spelter plant pot has been formed using four month tiles designed by Helen J A Miles. The planter dates from c.1880.
This speltre plant pot has been formed using four month tiles designed by Helen J A Miles. The planter dates from c.1880.
- Type of object: Useful ware/garden pot
- Mark: (Tile marks not visible)
- Year first produced: 1880
- Body: Queen's ware, cream-coloured earthenware
- Glaze: Clear glaze
- Material: Ceramic, spelter
- Decoration: Under-glaze blue-painted and printed
- Accession number: 10293
- Dimensions: 174 mm (height), 211 mm (width), 211 mm (depth)
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Helen J A Miles
Tile designer
Helen J A Miles - Tile designer
Helen Jane Arundel Miles was a watercolourist and book illustrator who exhibited regularly between 1860 and 1883. She provided many designs for tiles for Wedgwood from the 1870s onwards.
Glossary
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Spelter
Spelter
Impure zinc, usually containing about 3 per cent of lead and other impurities.
