Tile with branching leaves and flowerlets

Details

Date: c.1862
Dimensions: 12.8 x 12.8
Object Type: ceramic
Material: tin-glazed earthenware
Technique: hand-painted
Catalogue number: C178a
Designer: Morris, William, 1834, 1896
Retailer: Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co.
Credit notes: Presented by Alan Green, 1976

This design of alternating swans and leaf scroll motif is attributed to William Morris c.1862. The tiles were decorated in Morris & Co.’s workshops on an imported Dutch tin-glaze tile. Morris later transferred production to the Netherlands, those tiles are slightly smaller and decorated using the more durable ‘in-glaze’ technique, as opposed to the hand painted ‘on-glaze’ technique of this earlier tile.

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