glazed ceramic
Comprising ten tiles painted with a stylized meandering river containing fish and waterlilies, the surrounding white ground with flowering grasses, within a border of 18 monochrome blue tiles, framed
Various impressed Fulham period marks
6 in. (15.2 cm.) long, 6 in. (15.2 cm.) wide, each pictorial tile
33¹⁄₂ in. (85.1 cm.) high, 15¹⁄₂ in. (39.4 cm.) wide, framed

Anonymous sale; Christie's, South Kensington, 28 July 1995, lot 70.
Acquired by Ann and Gordon Getty from the above.

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The design for the pictorial tiles in this composition, executed in blue, green and purple watercolor on paper, was given to the Victoria & Albert Museum (accession no. E.699-1917) by Evelyn de Morgan in 1917, and is also illustrated in M. Greenwood and R. Dennis, The Designs of William de Morgan, Ilminster, 1989, p. 126, fig. 699. An executed tile is held in the collection of the British Museum (reg. no. 1980,0307.16). The motif is recorded as having been designed prior to 1888, the year in which De Morgan and Halsey Ricardo entered into partnership to operate the Sands End Pottery in Fulham.