Mintons 8" Pictorial Tile T203

Original, quality late 19th century 8" glazed tile in the original wooden frame. This most unusual tile from Minton's China Works Stoke on Trent, is the first we have seen and has an impressed illustration of a figure sweeping up leaves, who appears Japanese and all in a coffee brown glaze finish. The frame is oak veneered on pine and has gilding decoration. Some plaster beading missing but otherwise complete and in good order.