Matte Green Grueby Arts & Crafts Tile folk art wooden lion Victorian 1" long

Victorian 1" long

The unglazed edge is a bit irregular

excepting what looks like graphite or charcoal marks on cover

I believe this is an old darning egg

where a retrospective of their work was presented in 1996

Matte Green Grueby Arts & Crafts Tile folk art wooden lion Victorian 1" longI think that the more I look at things, the more I find myself gravitating to far opposite ends of the spectrum: either super simple, or super eccenticthis Grueby tile being, for me, just about the ultimate simple, perfect thing. It is Grueby, which produced pottery in Boston, MA from 1894 1919, that made the best of the best, most prized matte green glaze, which this tile delivers in its purest form. Yum. 8 7 8 l x 3 w x 3 4 t and in very good