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Description: | Artist: William De Morgan & Co., maker; Date(s): circa 1888 - 1897; Classification(s): earthenware, tile picture, slip-coating, earthenware, slip-coated, decorated with a traced-transfer design and clear-glazed; Acquisition: given by The Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum, 1976-01-29, Given by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum [C.1-1976]
Description: Panel of eight large central tiles surrounded by a border of twelve rectangular tiles and four corner tiles. Earthenware, slip-coated, trace-transfered in 'Persian' colours, and clear-glazed. The central panel, painted in blue, turquoise-blue, green, yellow,pale orange, and brown on a white ground, shows two facing peacocks amid foliage, bordered above and below by fish swimming in a deep blue sea. The borders consist of Islamic, Persian style arches with fleur-de-lis and swirls, in light blue, dark blue and manganese red. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/terms.htm | Publisher: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Rights holder: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Subjects: | tile picture William De Morgan & Co. earthenware | Temporal: | name=late 19th Century; start=1888; end=1897 | Source: | Fitzwilliam Museum | Creator: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Identifier: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/opacdire... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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