Max Laeuger Large Art Nouveau Tile series cracks or repairs

cracks or repairs

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

1927 - 1930

It measures 10" tall and 5" wide and about 3" diameter and is in very good condition

There is a thatch roofed  English cottage under a tree

Max Laeuger Large Art Nouveau Tile series cracks or repairsThis 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