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Phyllida
Burne-Jones, Edward Coley - Enlarge image
Phyllida
- Object:
Tile panel
- Place of origin:
London (painted)
The Netherlands (made) - Date:
1864 - ca.1870 (designed)
1868 - ca.1870 (made) - Artist/Maker:
Burne-Jones, Edward Coley (Sir), born 1833 - died 1898 (designer)
Morris, William, born 1834 - died 1896 (designer)
Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co. (maker) - Materials and Techniques:
hand-painted in various colours (the figure) and blue (Scroll) on tin-glazed earthenware Dutch blanks.
- Credit Line:
Given by the Crown Estate Commissioners
- Museum number:
CIRC.530-1962
- Gallery location:
Ceramics, Room 144, The Headley Trust Gallery, case EXP
From a series of tiles based on Chaucer's Legend of Goode Wimmen.This panel is one of two acquired by the Museum from 1 Palace Green, the London house of George Howard, the Earl of Carlisle. As tiles, Chaucer's Legend of Goode Wimmen first appeared on a fireplace in Sandroyd, the house designed by Philip Webb for the painter J.R. Spencer Stanhope in 1860 and furnished thereafter. The figure was designed for windows at Birket Foster's house The Hill. Burne-Jones noted in his passbook now in the Fitzwilliam Museum in 1869: 'To touching up ssome Good Women and I would rather have been boilded ten times over £1.1.0.' In the Museum's panel, the figure has suffered some of the technical problems that Morris encountered in the firing of his tiles. The skilfully decoarted framing Scroll-pattern tiles with special border painted for the Palace Green commission are the only know examples painted at Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co. All other examples of the pattern, and many variations, are Dutch-made.
