Scroll
Tile
ca. 1870 (designed)
ca. 1870 (designed)
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The tile is divided into sixteen squares, these alternately filled with blue enamelled foliate scrolls or flowers.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Title | Scroll |
| Materials and techniques | Hand-painted in blue on a tin-glazed earthenware Dutch earthenware blank. The use of a ready made blank means that the tin-glaze has been fired before the enamel was applied. The enamel is, however, covered with a further thin layer of clear glaze. |
| Brief description | Tile of earthenware, "Scroll" pattern, tin-glazed, designed by William Morris or Philip Webb, England, ca. 1870. |
| Physical description | The tile is divided into sixteen squares, these alternately filled with blue enamelled foliate scrolls or flowers. |
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| Credit line | Given by Jennifer Opie |
| Object history | This tile is believed to have come from 1 Palace Green, the London House of George Howard, the Early of Carlisle. It would have been removed from the building along with Circ.530-1962, and Circ. 531-1962. Exhibited in William Morris, V&A, May-Sept 1996 |
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| Bibliographic reference | Parry, Linda ed. William Morris, London : Philip Wilson Publishers Limited, 1996. 384p., ill., ISBN 0856674419 |
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| Accession number | C.25-1995 |
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| Record created | January 5, 2004 |
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