Voysey's tile designs: a catalogue raisonné
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This paper is the first extensive survey of the architect C F A Voysey's activities as a designer of ceramic tiles and includes a catalogue raisonné of all known Voysey designed tiles and the various manufacturers with whom he worked. The compilation of the catalogue raisonné was necessitated by the large number of tiles erroneously attributed to Voysey on purely stylistic grounds by dealers, collectors, and museum curators. Tile attributions to Voysey based on style alone being problematic as his work was very influential and he had many ‘followers’, being much copied during his lifetime. Using primary source material and location visits, the author rigorously catalogues only those tiles that can be proven to have been designed by the architect, establishing a firm chronology and documenting all the manufacturers to whom he supplied designs alongside those with which he had no association. In so doing, many problematic ‘Voysey style’ tiles (some held in prominent, public collections) are removed from Voysey’s canon and, in some cases, reattributed to their actual designer. The paper also explores the reasons for the rise in popularity of ceramic tiling in nineteenth century Britain and contextualises Voysey’s activities in this field alongside those of other influential architect/designers.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.007 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.010 | 0.012 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.027 | 0.008 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".