AN IMPORTANT WILLIAM DE MORGAN AND WILLIAM MORRIS FRAMED `ACANTHUS` TILE PANEL

Lot 123
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Lot 123 | AN IMPORTANT WILLIAM DE MORGAN AND WILLIAM MORRIS FRAMED 'ACANTHUS' TILE PANEL
Valeur estimée
£ 20 000 – 30 000
AN IMPORTANT WILLIAM DE MORGAN AND WILLIAM MORRIS FRAMED 'ACANTHUS' TILE PANEL

CIRCA 1876

Comprising sixty-six tiles, decorated overall with entwined leafy branches and flowering tendrils, in blue-green shades on an indigo blue ground

64 1/2 x 38 1/8 in. (169 x 97 cm.), including frame

63 3/4 x 35 1/2 in. (161.6 x 90 cm.), excluding frame





Provenance

Almost certainly commissioned for Edward Charles Baring, 1st Baron Revelstoke, for Membland Hall, Devon.

Probably acquired after the sale of the house in 1916 and before its demolition in the 1920s.

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, November 1991, lot 308.



Literature

D. Breuer et. al., Pre-Raphaelite and Other Masters, London, 2003, pp. 234, 313, cat. no. 177.



Comparative literature (the panel in the Victoria & Albert Museum):

J. Catleugh, William de Morgan Tiles, Shepton Beauchamp, 1991, p. 104.

L. Parry (ed.), William Morris, London, 1996, p. 193, K.19.

R. Hildyard, European Ceramics, London, 1999. p. 144, no. 56.

N. Billen (ed.), Design Cities: 1851-2008, London, 2008, pp.16-17, ill. p. 138.





Exhibited

London, Royal Academy, Pre-Raphaelite and Other Masters, 2003, no. 177.



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