Turquoise Tile

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Date: c.1888-98
Dimensions: 106.7 x 81.2
Object Type: ceramic
Material: earthenware
Technique: hand-painted
Catalogue number: C6a
Designer: De Morgan, William (1839 - 1917)
Manufacturer: De Morgan, Sands End Pottery, Fulham, London, England
Credit notes: Presented by H.C. Mossop, 1941

This tile panel was designed by William De Morgan, the leading ceramicist of the Arts and Crafts movement. The panel is made up of 42 tiles and depicts a rearing lion painted in bold enamel colours. The lion is highly stylised with a large clawed paws and a sun-ray mane. The design demonstrates De Morgan’s admiration for Iranian and Ottoman Iznik tiles. The panel (and another see C6) was donated by H.C.Mossop, who’s sister Nellie Mossop painted tiles and other ceramics for De Morgan in the early years, when he was working at Orange House in Cheyne Walk. This tile panel was made after that period, at Sands End, Fulham, when De Morgan was in partnership with the architect Halsey Ricardo. An identical panel, with the design reversed and in different colours is also in the Gallery’s collection (see C6).

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Dimensions: 15.2 x 15.2
Object Type: ceramic
Technique: hand-painted
Catalogue number: C217.5
Maker: Morris & Co.
Credit notes: Presented by Michael Whiteway, 1996

Tiles and table glass were a popular and financially important aspect of Morris and Co.’s early output. Despite Morris’s belief that works of art should, as far as possible, be designed and executed by a single craftsperson, ceramics was one of the few areas in which he did not have personal artisanal expertise. Instead, he purchased blank tiles from the Netherlands. According to Jennifer Hawkins Opie: “…white, undecorated tiles ordered from Dutch manufacturers arrived at the Morris works in London ready glazed and fired. These were then decorated by the painters of stained glass already employed by Morris. Of necessity, this was done in enamel colours and this ‘on-glaze’ decoration was fired (a second firing for the tin glaze), initially alongside the enamel-decorated stained glass in the firm’s own kilns in the basement of Red Lion Square.”
This ‘Bay and Willow’ pattern is typical of Morris’s interest in natural, botanical forms. In many cases, individual tiles could be combined to create larger pictorial and decorative schemes.

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Dimensions: 15.2 x 15.2
Object Type: ceramic
Technique: hand-painted
Catalogue number: C217.4
Maker: Morris & Co.
Credit notes: Presented by Michael Whiteway, 1996

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Dimensions: 15.2 x 15.2
Object Type: ceramic
Technique: hand-painted
Catalogue number: C217.3
Maker: Morris & Co.
Credit notes: Presented by Michael Whiteway, 1996

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Dimensions: 15.2 x 15.2
Object Type: ceramic
Technique: hand-painted
Catalogue number: C217.2
Manufacturer: Morris & Co. Art-Workers Ltd., 17 George Street, Hanover Square, London
Credit notes: Presented by Michael Whiteway, 1996

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Date: c.1920
Dimensions: 14.4 x 35
Object Type: ceramic
Technique: hand-painted
Catalogue number: C256b
Designer: Powell, Louise (1882 - 1956)
Manufacturer: Josiah Wedgwood and Sons
Credit notes: Presented by Mrs Helen Brandon-Jones, 2003

This bowl was decorated by Louise Powell, with a stylised acanthus leaf pattern in dark green hand-painted on a Wedgwood blank. See C256a for a similar plate.
Louise Powell (née Lessore) was a painter and illustrator, who, along with her husband Alfred, was a significant figure in the Arts and Crafts movement. Alongside Wedgwood pottery, Louise Powell painted furniture by Ernest Gimson and Sidney Barnsley; she was a student of Edward Johnston and briefly worked as an assistant to Graily Hewitt, with whom she completed the manuscript of Virgil begun by William Morris for Fairfax Murray. She was active in the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society and organised rooms at the 1916 Exhibition held at Burlington House.

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Date: c.1920
Dimensions: 26
Object Type: ceramic
Technique: hand-painted
Catalogue number: C256a
Designer: Powell, Louise (1882 - 1956)
Manufacturer: Josiah Wedgwood and Sons
Credit notes: Presented by Mrs Helen Brandon-Jones, 1997

This jug was decorated by Louise Powell, with a stylised acanthus leaf pattern in dark green hand-painted on wedgewood blank. See C256b for a similar bowl.
Louise Powell (née Lessore) was a painter and illustrator, who, along with her husband Alfred, was a significant figure in the Arts and Crafts movement. Alongside Wedgwood pottery, Louise Powell painted furniture by Ernest Gimson and Sidney Barnsley; she was a student of Edward Johnston and briefly worked as an assistant to Graily Hewitt, with whom she completed the manuscript of Virgil begun by William Morris for Fairfax Murray. She was active in the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society and organised rooms at the 1916 Exhibition held at Burlington House.

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Date: 1913
Object Type: ceramic
Technique: hand-painted
Catalogue number: C250
Designer: Jack, Margery (1894 - 1974)
Credit notes: Presented by June Randall, 2002

Margery Jack was the daugher of George Jack, Arts and Crafts architect and designer of furniture for Morris and Co., and Annie Jack, a skillled embroiderer. Margery and her twin sister Jessie were encouraged to be creative from a young age and this hand painted bowl was made when Margery was 19 years old. The floral decoration is handpainted in overglaze enamels on a white earthenware blank made by Wedgwood. Both Margery and Jessie studied at LCC Central School of Arts & Crafts where they attended the painting on china course. The course encouraged economic self-sufficency, students would purchase Wedgwood blanks from the college which they would decorate and fire in their kilns, students were then able to sell or keep the finished items.

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Dimensions: 15.2 x 15.2
Object Type: ceramic
Technique: hand-painted
Catalogue number: C217.1
Manufacturer: Morris & Co.
Credit notes: Presented by Michael Whiteway, 1996

Technique: hand-painted

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