Tile with floral decoration, S. A. Manufactures Céramiques d'Hemixem, Gilliot & Cie, Hemiksen

Tile with floral decoration, S. A. Manufactures Céramiques d'Hemixem, Gilliot & Cie, Hemiksen is held by Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe. Museum description: 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 1901–1904 production was expanded and the company grew significantly in size. 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. It was thus one of the largest tile manufacturers in Europe. Most designers who worked for Hemixem remained anonymous. An exception was 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 comp The museum record gives measurements Height: 15.0 cm, Width: 15.0 cm; maker recorded: S. A. Manufactures Céramiques d'Hemixem, Gilliot & Cie, Hemiksen. These details come from the holding museum's own record; how far this object represents a wider collectible type has not yet been independently verified.