wall tile
William Frend de Morgan 1839 - 1917
Summary
Four square plastic-bodied earthenware tiles, coated in white slip and decorated underglaze in hand-transferred 'Persian' colours. The design of each tile features a blue songbird, foliage in two tones of blue and purple and a green background. It is very possible that these four tiles originally had a border of twelve tiles and that these are in fact the border tiles now part of the group 1941.18/14 - this is suggested by the slide of this group, 1918.294/4, for which see details below.
Object Name
wall tile
Creators Name
Date Created
1882=1888
Dimensions
Estimated: 20.3cm x 20.3cm
accession number
1918.294
Collection Group
Place of creation
Merton Abbey
Medium
Credit
Transferred from the Horsfall Museum Collection, 1918
