Live Auction 22125The Ann and Gordon Getty Collection: Temple of Wings
WILLIAM DE MORGAN (1839-1917) AND EDWARD BURNE-JONES (1833-1898)
Lot 31

WILLIAM DE MORGAN (1839-1917) AND EDWARD BURNE-JONES (1833-1898)

An 'Orpheus and the Muses' dish, circa 1880

Closed14 June 2023

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WILLIAM DE MORGAN (1839-1917) AND EDWARD BURNE-JONES (1833-1898)
An 'Orpheus and the Muses' dish, circa 1880
glazed and ruby lustre-decorated ceramic
Painted in ruby lustre with a frieze of the nine Muses in procession reserved at the broad border and delineated in pink, the central well similarly reserved with Orpheus playing his lyre, the underside painted with bands of stylized leaves, tendrils and curlicues
Impressed Davis factory mark
12 in. (30.5 cm.) diameter

Anonymous sale; Christie's, South Kensington, 28 July 1995, lot 69.
Acquired by Ann and Gordon Getty from the above.

Specialist note

For another dish with the same subject and composition, also a collaboration between De Morgan and Burne-Jones, see the Victoria and Albert Museum, accession no. CIRC.363-1961. An example akin to the V&A's, as well as a design drawing for the motif executed on tracing paper, are included in M. Greenwood and R. Dennis, The Designs of William de Morgan, Ilminster, 1989, pp. 217 and 197, pl. 107 and fig. 36.