Lot 134
WILLIAM DE MORGAN (1839-1917)
9-INCH 'INDIA FRIEZE' TILE, CIRCA 1896
Auction: Day One: 21 April 2021 | From 11:00
£3,500
Description
glazed earthenware, made for the P&O India Liner, impressed Sand's End mark, 23cm square; together with a 9-INCH 'PERSIAN' TILE, Merton Abbey period, later framed, 23cm square
Footnote
Note: The India Frieze tile was commissioned from de Morgan by the architect T.E. Colcutt for the P&O ship 'India', built at Greenock in 1896 by Caird & Co. De Morgan supplied eighty-eight of these tiles for the companionway frieze.