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A MORRIS, MARSHALL, FAULKNER & CO. FRAMED TILE PANEL DESIGNED BY EDWARD COLEY BURNE JONES, BT., A.R.A., R.W.S. AND WILLIAM MORRIS
Lot 32

A MORRIS, MARSHALL, FAULKNER & CO. FRAMED TILE PANEL DESIGNED BY EDWARD COLEY BURNE JONES, BT., A.R.A., R.W.S. AND WILLIAM MORRIS

CIRCA 1865

Closed30 September 2021

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A MORRIS, MARSHALL, FAULKNER & CO. FRAMED TILE PANEL DESIGNED BY EDWARD COLEY BURNE JONES, BT., A.R.A., R.W.S. AND WILLIAM MORRIS
CIRCA 1865
Comprising two square tin-glazed Dutch tiles, with polychrome decoration in overglaze enamel, depicting Cleopatra standing before a scrolling banner, inscribed 'IMAGO CLEOPATRAE AEGYPTI REGINAE: MARTYRIS', against a blue background
15 x 8 ¾ in. (38 cm. x 22.3 cm.) including frame

Peter Rose recorded that this was acquired from The Fine Art Society, 1992.

Specialist note


Edward Burne-Jones designed a set of twelve tile panels each depicting a female figure inspired by Geoffrey Chaucer's visionary poem 'The Legend of Goode Wimmen'. An entry in his accounts for 'Tiles 12 Single figures £3' in May or June 1862 probably refers to the series and would suggest that this was 'the firm's earliest essay in decoration based upon a theme which was to recur in various media...over the ensuing three and a half decades.' Burne-Jones was to rework the 'Good Women' for a set of embroidered hangings planned for Ruskin. For further discussion of the series see R. and H. Myers, William de Morgan Tiles, Shepton Beauchamp, 1996, pp. 21-25.