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Tile with ‘Clyde’ daisy design (1)
Maker:
William De Morgan & Co.
Designer:
De Morgan, William Frend
Square, buff, earthenware tile, covered in cream slip, decorated with transfer pattern in black, purple-brown, yellow and shades of green, and glazed. An all-over naturalistic pattern of green leaves, with a diagonal leading stem and four yellow petal, purple-brown centre, daisies. Two of the daisies are shown from the side, with petals bent back. The design is outlined in black. The tile is thick and the earthenware coarse; the glaze is crackled; the back and sides are unglazed.
History note: Given by Mr H.C.Mossop, 1941
Given by H.C. Mossop
Height: 20.3 cm
Height: 8 in
Width: 20.1 cm
Width: 8 in
Method of acquisition: Given (1941-03-26) by Mossop, H. C.
19th Century, Late#
Circa
1882
CE
-
1888
CE
This tile dates from 1882-88, when De Morgan’s workshop was at Merton Abbey, next door to Morris’s factory. The coarse earthenware and rough sides indicate that the tile was intended for a fireplace or other architectural use. The flowing naturalism suggests it is an early design, perhaps influenced by Morris’s work; De Morgan’s later tile designs were more stylised and symmetrical. He made many, many designs for tiles and tile panels – some 820, including this one, are in the V&A collection – and transferred them using his own innovative transfer method which allowed repeats to be made whilst preserving a ‘hand-made’ quality.
William Frend De Morgan (1839-1917), now widely regarded as the most important ceramicist of the Arts & Crafts movement, also worked in stained glass and became a successful novelist. The son of a non-conformist mathematics professor, he became a close friend of William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones and married the Pre-Raphaelite painter Evelyn Pickering (1855-1919), in 1887. As a ceramicist, De Morgan was primarily a designer/decorator and chemist, working on bought-in blanks or pots thrown to his design. He experimented widely with techniques and glazes, re-discovering methods for making and applying lustres and the colours of Iznik and Persian pottery and using them for a range of complex fantasy designs featuring ships, birds, flora and animals.
Decoration composed of clear glaze ( crackled) transfer
buff-coloured Earthenware
Slip-coating
: Earthenware, slip coated, trace-transfered and glazed
Glazing (coating)
Inscription present: large, square, one ‘M’ serving both parts, and a drawing of an abbey church.
Accession number: EC.8-1941
Primary reference Number: 15328
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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