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WILLIAM MORRIS (1834-1896) AND WILLIAM DE MORGAN (1839-1917)
Important 'Acanthus' Tile Panel, designed 1876
glazed ceramic
comprising sixty-six tiles
65 in. (165.1 cm.) high, 36 1/4 in. (92 cm.) wide (sight)
67 1/2 in. (171.5 cm.) high, 39 in. (99 cm.) wide, 2 1/4 in. (5.7 cm.) deep (framed)
some tiles marked ARCHITECTURAL POTTERY, POOLE, DORSET
Provenance
Possibly from the set commissioned by George Devey architect to the banker E.C. Baring, Baron Revelstoke, for Membland Hall, Devon.
Possibly acquired after the sale of the house in 1916 and before its demolition in the 1920s.
Richard Dennis, London.
Acquired by Ann and Gordon Getty from the above, 1996.
Literature
L. F. Day, "Decorative Art of William Morris and His Work," Easter Art Annual Art Journal Extra Number 1899, London, 1899, p. 19.
C. Wainwright, Architect - Designers, Pugin to Mackintosh, exh. cat., Fine Arts Society, London, 1981, p. 30.
G. Naylor, ed., William Morris by himself: designs and writings, London, 1988, pp. 168 (for a drawing), 169.
C. Gere and M. Whiteway, Nineteenth-Century Design, New York, 1994, p. 212.
R. Myers and H. Myers, William Morris Tiles: The Tile Designs of Morris and his Fellow-Workers, Somerset, 1996, p. 124, fig. 221 and 222 (for a watercolor of this design).
L. Parry, ed., William Morris exh. cat., Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1996, p. 193, cat. no. K.19.
A. Mason, ed., William Morris London, 2021, p. 231, fig. X.21a (for a drawing of this design) and fig. X.21b.
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