Manufacturer: Minton & Co.

Date of Manufacture: 1835-45

Type: Inlaid plastic clay tile of sandwich construction.

Description: Decorated encaustic floor tile with neo-medieval design with makers marks and twenty-five stabbed holes to the verso.

Design: Eight-petal fower in an octofoil with foliate spandrels.

Colours: Blue, white, terracotta red and buff.

Dimensions: 6" x 6" x 1" (152 mm x 152 mm x 23 mm)

Condition:  Edge and corner chips and nibbles and some surface marks (see photos).