Lot 73
FOUR RUBY LUSTRE TILES BY J.C. EDWARDS
LATE 19TH CENTURY
Auction: 28 February 2018 from 11:00 GMT
£375
Description
each painted with flowering foliage, moulded maker's marks; TWO WEDGWOOD & SON MARSDEN'S PATENT TILES, with floral and foliate decoration; and ANOTHER SIMILAR TILE; plus THREE FLORAL TILES (10)
Dimensions
Each tile approx. 15cm square
Footnote
Note: John used to collect Victorian tiles at a time in the 1960s when many buildings were being demolished. "I would risk life and limb walking across joists where the floor had been taken up but the fireplace left behind. I smashed beautiful fireplaces in order to take the tiles out, but they would have been destroyed anyway".