WILLIAM DE MORGAN (BRITISH, 1839-1917)'Fan and Thistle - Persian-style' pattern tile panel, 1882-1888
Four 8-inch tiles, the pattern covering two tiles, decorated and glazed in vibrant colours with stylised fan shaped flowers and thistle flowers with long serrated leaves. Framed.
Tile panel: 81 cm x 20.2 cm (four 8 x 8 in tiles)
With frame: 98 cm x 37 cm
Each tile impressed on reverse with oval mark De Morgan Merton Abbey.
FootnotesLiterature
Jon Catleugh, William De Morgan Tiles, Trefoil Books, London, 1983, p. 102, fig. 140 (design drawing illustrated) and p. 79 ('Fan'...is the richest of all the flower-and-leaf designs which have an Islamic origin.")
Martin Greenwood, The Designs of William De Morgan, Richard Dennis/William E. Wiltshire III, 1989, p. 144, nos. 643 & 644 (designs illustrated)
Margaret S. Frederick, ed., Evelyn & William De Morgan: A Marriage of Arts & Crafts, Yale University Press, 2023, p. 125, fig. 10.8 (black and white contemporary photograph of the master bedroom fireplace, showing William De Morgan's 'Fan and thistle' tiles, at Glessner House, Prairie Avenue, Chicago. Apparently, the tiles were selected for the house in around 1887)
WILLIAM DE MORGAN (BRITISH, 1839-1917)'Fan and Thistle - Persian-style' pattern tile panel, 1882-1888
Four 8-inch tiles, the pattern covering two tiles, decorated and glazed in vibrant colours with stylised fan shaped flowers and thistle flowers with long serrated leaves. Framed.
Tile panel: 81 cm x 20.2 cm (four 8 x 8 in tiles)
With frame: 98 cm x 37 cm
Each tile impressed on reverse with oval mark De Morgan Merton Abbey.
FootnotesLiterature
Jon Catleugh, William De Morgan Tiles, Trefoil Books, London, 1983, p. 102, fig. 140 (design drawing illustrated) and p. 79 ('Fan'...is the richest of all the flower-and-leaf designs which have an Islamic origin.")
Martin Greenwood, The Designs of William De Morgan, Richard Dennis/William E. Wiltshire III, 1989, p. 144, nos. 643 & 644 (designs illustrated)
Margaret S. Frederick, ed., Evelyn & William De Morgan: A Marriage of Arts & Crafts, Yale University Press, 2023, p. 125, fig. 10.8 (black and white contemporary photograph of the master bedroom fireplace, showing William De Morgan's 'Fan and thistle' tiles, at Glessner House, Prairie Avenue, Chicago. Apparently, the tiles were selected for the house in around 1887)
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