SIR EDWARD COLEY BURNE-JONES (1833-1898) FOR MORRIS & CO.
‘MEDEA’ THREE-TILE PANEL, CIRCA 1870
£6,048
Auction: Lots 1 to 336 | 16th October at 10am
Description
painted and glazed earthenware, framed
Dimensions
each tile 15.5cm square (frame size 53.5cm x 23cm)
Provenance
Provenance: Paul Reeves, London
Footnote
Literature: Myers, Richard and Hilary William Morris Tiles, Richard Dennis 1996, p. 78-79 and p. 90, fig. 34b where a tile panel of the same design is illustrated.
Note: This Burne-Jones design first produced as a stained glass design in 1864 as one of The Legend of Goode Wimmen series, subsequently transposed towards the end of the 1860's.