Tile depicting a parrot (detail), S. A. Manufactures Céramiques d'Hemixem, Gilliot & Cie, Hemiksen

Tile depicting a parrot (detail) is held by Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe (Germany), attributed to S. A. Manufactures Céramiques d'Hemixem, Gilliot & Cie, Hemiksen. Description supplied by the holding institution: In 1897, Georges Gilliot founded the tile company S.A. Manufactures Céramiques d'Hemixem, Gilliot Frères near Antwerp. The company produced its first tiles in 1898 and offered a variety of "dust-pressed wall tiles and stove tiles". From 1901 to 1904, production expanded and the company grew significantly. While around the turn of the century fifty employees worked for the company, by 1910 there were already nine hundred. An excerpt from the 1913 catalogue shows that the company produced 250,000 tiles daily, making it one of the largest tile manufacturers in Europe. Most designers who worked for Hemixem remained anonymous. An exception is the designer H. Bonnerot, who signed his artistic tile pictures. The focus of production was on floral Art Nouveau, but geometric forms also appeared. In 1920, the company received the name S.A. Manufactures Céramiques d’Hemixem, Gilliot & Cie. Literature: Simmermacher,… The collection record gives measurements height: 15.0 cm, width: 15.0 cm (tile); height: 30.0 cm, width: 30.0 cm (overall). Published through Europeana; how far this object represents a wider collectible type has not yet been independently verified.