104 - Eight square pottery tiles,

Eight square pottery tiles, Minton, England, Stoke on Trent, circa 1880, The first, a Minton model "145", with a spray of blue carnation rising from a mosque lamp-like vase flanked with cypress and floral sprigs ; the second, marked "P" indicating 1887 as year of production, a turquoise blue carnation within an oval tendril bearing bluebells, two tulips below ; the third, an elegant cobalt and light blue flower within a central quatrefoil amidst a flowing entrelacs of leaved and floral tendrils ; the fourth, two swaying tendrils issuing from two blue and white saaz leaves and intersecting to form a large bloom with serrated leaves and ending in trefoil within a bell-shaped pistil ; the fifth, a cobalt and light blue and green floral bud under two adorsed saaz leaves amidst cloud bands and tendrils ; the sixth, a stylised floral mandorla within a floral leaf, each corner with a quartered smaller mandorla, its Minton reference number : 1123 P. ; the seventh, an oversize flower, its petal composed of smaller flowers within saaz leaves, four looping tendrils to each corner ; the eighth, a flower within a central octagon within a profuse floral scrolling field, Each 20.2cm. square