wall tile
Summary
Two plastic-bodied earthenware tiles, hand-painted with 'Persian' design of two tulip-shaped flowers and five round-petalled flowers growing from intertwining stems with feathery leaves. Tiles are coated with white porcelain slip ground. Outlines painted in green and cobalt blue, with copper green, copper turquoise and cobalt blue in-fill colouring. Overall blurred appearance to design. Relief details in Armenian bole. Combed backs. Upper half of pattern is mirror image of M10929, same design but painted differently. Armenian bole on M10941/2 dark red [different recipe to M10929 which is pale orange].
Display Label
Gallery text panel The Pre-Raphaelites in their Time Britain's first and best-known radical art movement emerged from within the Royal Academy in 1848. Its original members were rebellious art students who were disillusioned with contemporary practice. They looked back to Italian art before Raphael, seeing the pre-1500 period as one of great sincerity. They called themselves the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. In an age of rapid industrial and urban expansion, Pre-Raphaelite artists like Rossetti, Hunt and Millais, and pioneering design reformers such as William Morris, sought a return to pre-industrial values of art and design in truth to nature and materials, and good workmanship. In addition, the arts of the Middle Ages and Middle East were important sources of stylistic inspiration. The Bible, literature and contemporary life were preferred over subjects derived from classical mythology. The Brotherhood also rejected contrived studio lighting and took canvases outside to paint directly from nature. Although attempting to convey exactly what they saw, they created a heightened reality of dream-like intensity with minute details and bright, dazzling colours. Their art was a new kind of history painting for a new age.
Object Name
wall tile
Creators Name
Date Created
1895=1900
Dimensions
Single Tile: 15cm x 15cm
accession number
2014.21/2
Collection Group
Place of creation
Clifton Junction
Medium
On Display
[G7] Manchester Art Gallery - Gallery 7
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