Max Laeuger Large Art Nouveau Tile series If you look closely you'll

If you look closely you'll find bees

A black gunmetal glaze drips from the mouth over a deep cobalt blue crystalline surface

and a turkey

encaustic tiles like these are make for heavy traffic

Max Laeuger Large Art Nouveau Tile series If you look closely you'llThis 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