The Studio yearbook of decorative art (1906)

Porcelain and Earthenware

find favour for front stair-
cases ; but for back stair-
cases and similar positions,
where there is much dirt
and traffic, it is simply in-
valuable.

Painted tiles are apt to
be too pretentious, an
error which manifests itself
in pictorial effects. The
very divisions, however,
incidental to tile - work
render such compositions,
which necessarily spread
over an area made up of

dinner and tea service designed by robert allen . ...

executed by doulton & co., ltd., burslem separate tiles, unsuitable

to this medium. Whereas
the charm of the best

edges of floors and steps. Moreover, when used tile-work is its excessive simplexity, the broadest
in stairs, tiles form a sufficient decoration in them- and most magnificent results being produced by
selves to allow of one dispensing with a stair masterly spacing, arrangement and repetition of
carpet. This practice is not, of course, likely to very simple units, confined, for the most part, within

dinner and tea services

designed by robert allen

executed by doulton & co., ltd., burslem