This earthenware tile features a design of two roses positioned in the upper left and lower right corners, painted in blue with deep blue centers. The roses are connected by a diagonal stem of green leaves, set against a background of a green squared trellis. The reverse side is impressed with a square mark enclosing the text W. DE. MORGAN in a circular arrangement, with a central circle of impressed dots.
Related works: The Rose Trellis design shares affinities with one of William Morris’s earliest wallpapers, Trellis, designed around 1862 and printed in 1864. This wallpaper was reportedly inspired by the rose trellises in the garden of Morris’s home, the Red House in Bexleyheath, Kent.
