Max Laeuger Large Art Nouveau Tile series A nice Victorian era tile

A nice Victorian era tile hand painted with an image of baby chicks playing with shafts of wheat

encaustic tiles like these are make for heavy traffic

One small flake on the rim

This tile was made through a dust-pressed technique in which clay powder is compressed under high pressure into a mold

Max Laeuger Large Art Nouveau Tile series A nice Victorian era tileThis large tile was made by Max Laeuger (1864 1952) in Germany at the turn of the 20th Century. The tile measures nearly 8 inches square and the surface is decorated with slip in an impasto and squeezebag technique. A bold design in green might represent the leaves of a staghorn fern. The back has old labels and an applied hanger, as well as impressed mark for Tonwerk Kandern. In 1898 the "Tonwerke Kandern Art Pottery" was founded under the direction