Tile
c.1863 - 1873
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Panel of two tiles, earthenware, painted with a scene from Beauty and the Beast, designed by Edward Burne-Jones, 1863, made by Morris, Marshall, Faulkner and Co., 1863 to early1870s, England
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Earthenware |
| Brief description | Panel of two tiles, earthenware, painted with a scene from Beauty and the Beast, designed by Edward Burne-Jones, 1863, made by Morris, Marshall, Faulkner and Co., 1863 to early1870s, England |
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| Content description | This panel depicts the third scene in Beauty and the Beast, the full title of which is 'How a Prince who by enchantment was under the form of a beast became a man again by the love of a certain maiden'. Here Beauty is comforted by her father before she is led in to meet the Beast. |
| Marks and inscriptions | RI Tiles G/L7/1 from 1/S £5.10.0 (paper label) |
| Credit line | Bequeathed by J. R. Holliday |
| Object history | This is from one of three designs for narrative panels ordered in 1862 by the painter Myles Birket Foster for his house, The Hill. The original panel of six scenes from The Hill is now at the William Morris Gallery, Walthamstow. Burne-Jones noted in his passbook, now in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, payment of £6 and £2 for 'sets of subjects for tiles "Beauty & Beast" in July, August, and November 1863. Orders were taken later for panels in which the scenes, borders and title differed from the original. It seems probable that J.R Holliday acquired this framed single scene (and associated tracings E.1293, 1297, 1298-1931) direct from Morris & Co. |
| Production | The tiles were imported as blanks from the Netherlands. |
| Bibliographic reference | William Morris Exhibition Catalogue, ed. Linda Parry, V&A, 1996, p.188.
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| Accession number | C.54-1931 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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