Tile panel, Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co, London, 1864-1870
Record status
Individual type · partial
Period
1864 - ca.1870
From a series of tiles based on Chaucer's Legend of Goode Wimmen .This panel is one of two acquired by the Museum from 1 Palace Green, the London house of George Howard, the Earl of Carlisle. As tiles, Chaucer's Legend of Goode Wimmen first appeared on a fireplace in Sandroyd, the house designed by Philip Webb for the painter J.R. Spencer Stanhope in 1860 and furnished thereafter.
The figure was designed for windows at Birket Foster's house The Hill. Burne-Jones noted in his passbook now in the Fitzwilliam Museum in 1869: 'To touching up ssome Good Women and I would rather have been boilded ten times over £1.1.0.' In the Museum's panel, the figure has suffered some of the technical problems that Morris encountered in the firing of his tiles. The skilfully decoarted framing Scroll-pattern tiles with special border painted for the Palace Green commission are the only know examples painted at Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co. All other examples of the pattern, and many variations, are Dutch-made. 3 tiles painted with a female figure holding a flowering branch, and 10 border tiles painted with a foliate design.
Evidence at a glance
- Linked sources
- 1
- Photograph views
- 4
- Catalogue references
- 0
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Historical context
From 1 Palace Green, London (1st floor front room fire-place) Decorated for the Earl of Carlisle. 1 Palace Green was designed by Philip Webb and completed in 1872. The decorations were executed by Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Company.
Physical characteristics
- Material
- hand-painted in various colours (the figure) and blue (Scroll) on tin-glazed earthenware Dutch blanks.
- Dimensions
- Height: 77.2 cm; Width: 30.2 cm (taken from catalogue)
Technical characteristics
- Maker recorded
- Burne-Jones, Edward Coley (Sir); Morris, William
- Place recorded
- London, The Netherlands
Identification
- Source note
- Transcribed from the Victoria and Albert Museum, London collection record for this single object (sentences kept verbatim apart from removed sale or rarity wording); how far it represents a wider collectible type has not been independently verified.
- Candidate id
- vam-O277770
- Museum object name
- Tile panel
- Holding institution
- Victoria and Albert Museum, London
- Museum object number
- CIRC.530-1962
- Museum system number
- O277770
Catalogue references
No catalogue numbers recorded. Numbers are only published once transcribed from a verified edition of a standard catalogue — they are never inferred.
Research required
- Research required: confirm the wider type, maker and dating against a specialist reference; this entry documents one recorded example.