Floor tile collection
Carter, Stabler and Adams Ltd
Category
Architecture / Features & Decoration
Date
1930 - 1935
Materials
Earthenware with white slip and semi-matt glaze
Measurements
126 mm (H)127 mm (D)
Place of origin
Poole
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Nuffield Place, Oxfordshire
NT 1651043
Summary
Earthenware floor tiles in white slip with semi-matt white glaze laid in hearth. Some plain, others hand-painted with floral sprays. Purple trefoil shapes in corners. 'SH' series, designed by Reginald Till for Carter, Stabler & Adams, Poole, Dorset, England, c.1930-1935
Provenance
Collection William R. Morris, 1st Viscount Nuffield, by bequest to Nuffield College, University of Oxford, 1963, by transfer to National Trust, Nuffield Place, 2011.
Makers and roles
Carter, Stabler and Adams Ltd, factory Reginald Till, designer
References
Hawkins 1978: Jennifer Hawkins, Victoria & Albert Museum; The Poole Potteries February to April 1978 (London: HMSO), No 256