Wall tile
Category
Architecture / Features & Decoration
Date
1870 - 1890
Materials
Tin-glazed earthenware
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Speke Hall, Merseyside
NT 1196458.4
Summary
One of a set of twenty-eight blue-painted tiles in the chimney breast cheeks, tin-glazed earthenware, square, quartered design of flowers and trailing foliage, 'Longden' pattern, design attributed to the architect Philip Webb (1831-1915), c. 1870, painted on Dutch tiles made by Ravesteijn, Utrecht, for Morris & Company, c. 1870-90. Richard and Hilary Myers, 'William Morris Tiles', Richard Dennis, 1996, p. 104, cat. no. 159 and 160