19th Century French Pas de Calais Hand-painted Blue and White Tiles - Mixed Set of Nine walnut whimsy but it’s just him now

but it’s just him now

A note on the back of the wrapper I found this drawing in attributed it to Alan T

while one has a different mark

colored from use with blue chalk

19th Century French Pas de Calais Hand-painted Blue and White Tiles - Mixed Set of Nine walnut whimsy but it’s just him nowSomething about patterns painted in blue and white that is just way too satisfying to resist; I just want to be around these. I found them as a group of nine, so am selling them that way, though they have different characters and certainly lend themselves to breaking up in smaller groups. (To me, the four with all over fields of diamonds feel very modern while also a bit Persian or Turkish; the two at the corners like almost illusionistic surreal; and