tile
- Museum number
- 1994,1003.8
- Description
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Solid buff earthenware body tile, covered with white slip and handpainted in pale blue with a design of a stylised artichoke.
- Production date
- 1865-1870 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Length: 15.50 centimetres
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Width: 15.50 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- This tile was painted at Morris & Co. on an imported Dutch blank. According to the Myers, this tile was designed by either William Morris or William De Morgan, see R. and H. Myers, 'William Morris Tiles', Shepton Beauchamp, Richard Dennis Publications, 1996, pp. 104-105. For illustrations of this design on tiles made by De Morgan, Morris, and Dutch tileries, see the same title, p. 105, figs. 167-170. For illustrations showing tiles of this design made by Dutch firm from Kelmscott Manor, see 'Dutch Tiles at Kelmscott Manor: an iconographic, stylistic, technical analysis', Leeds Polytechnic, 1984, figs. 6 & 13.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
1996-1997 14 Sep-5 Jan, London, William Morris Galley, Morris and Company Tiles
- Acquisition date
- 1994
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 1994,1003.8
