Walter Crane Nursery Rhyme Trivet Hercules and the Waggoner AETCO Advertising Wessel unused condition

unused condition

Measures 6" square and 1/2" thick and made from red clay

she worked as a designer in London for the famous Chelsea Pottery

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Walter Crane Nursery Rhyme Trivet Hercules and the Waggoner AETCO Advertising Wessel unused conditionWalter 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 of Zanesville, Ohio and has a transfer design of Hercules and the Waggoner. Measures 6" x 6" x 1 2". This tile has an interesting application of the design. The surface remains shiny and unworn. The back