Tile Set
ca.1882 (made)
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The English artist William De Morgan was fascinated by ceramics from the Islamic world and developed a range of colours and designs that he called 'Persian'.
These tiles were originally installed in a fireplace of The Three Gables, 6 Fitzjohns Avenue, Hampstead, a house designed by Richard Norman Shaw in 1881-2 for the painter Frank Holl. Later owned by the North West Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board and used as a radiotherapy clinic, the house was scheduled for demolition in January 1965. The tiles were removed immediately prior to this and eventually acquired by the V&A.
These tiles were originally installed in a fireplace of The Three Gables, 6 Fitzjohns Avenue, Hampstead, a house designed by Richard Norman Shaw in 1881-2 for the painter Frank Holl. Later owned by the North West Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board and used as a radiotherapy clinic, the house was scheduled for demolition in January 1965. The tiles were removed immediately prior to this and eventually acquired by the V&A.
Object details
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| Parts | This object consists of 23 parts.
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| Materials and techniques | Earthenware painted in underglaze colours |
| Brief description | Twenty-three earthenware tiles with underglaze decoration in colours of stylized flowers and foliage in "Persian" style, made by William de Morgan, probably at Merton Abbey, England 1882-88 |
| Physical description | Set of earthenware tiles with underglaze decoration in colours of stylized flowers and foliage. |
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| Credit line | Given by the North West Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board |
| Object history | The tiles were installed in a fireplace of The Three Gables, 6 Fitzjohns Avenue, Hampstead, a house designed by Richard Norman Shaw in 1881-2 for the painter Frank Holl. Later owned by the North West Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board and used as a radiotherapy clinic, the house was scheduled for demolition in January 1965. The tiles were removed immediately prior to this. |
| Summary | The English artist William De Morgan was fascinated by ceramics from the Islamic world and developed a range of colours and designs that he called 'Persian'. These tiles were originally installed in a fireplace of The Three Gables, 6 Fitzjohns Avenue, Hampstead, a house designed by Richard Norman Shaw in 1881-2 for the painter Frank Holl. Later owned by the North West Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board and used as a radiotherapy clinic, the house was scheduled for demolition in January 1965. The tiles were removed immediately prior to this and eventually acquired by the V&A. |
| Bibliographic reference | Saint, Andrew. Richard Norman Shaw. New Haven, 1976, pp155, 158-9, 425. |
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| Accession number | CIRC.35-1970 |
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| Record created | July 7, 2003 |
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