Walter Crane Illustration Advertising Tile Trivet Nursery Rhyme Good King Arthur by AETCO Mexican Black line transfer design on

Black line transfer design on a steel blue glazed background

depictions of putti have decorated paintings

It is covered in a matte famille rose with the recesses filled with a matte Chinese blue glaze

The tiles are divided into three panels mounted onto a cement board backing

Tile  measures 9 1/4" tall and 7" wide and over 1/2" thick

Walter Crane Illustration Advertising Tile Trivet Nursery Rhyme Good King Arthur by AETCO Mexican Black line transfer design onWalter Crane was an accomplished 19th century illustrator famous for his nursery rhyme book Baby's Opera, His designs were used by several American and English tile companies in the early 1900's. This tile is from the American Encaustic Tile Company, AETCO, of Zanesville, Ohio and has a transfer design of Good King Arthur. Measures 6" x 6" x 3 4". This tile was a souvenir advertising gift and the back of the trivet has "Pittsburgh Tile Industry Field