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In 1873, William De Morgan established De Morgan & Co. and primarily sold painted tiles from his early premises in Chelsea, London. His designs were so popular that they were commissioned by everyone from the artist Frederic, Lord Leighton for his majestic Holland Park home (now Leighton House Museum) to P&O ocean liners who ordered tiles for over 12 luxury interior decorative schemes.
Artist, potter and novelist Potter, designer and novelist, De Morgan became part of William Morris' circle in the early 1860s and, under Morris' influence, turned his attention to ceramics. He established his first pottery in Chelsea in 1871, subsequently moving to Merton and Fulham and developing the lustre glazes for which his pottery is famous. In his sixties, De Morgan embarked on a second ...
De Morgan, a pacifist, expressed her horror at the First World War and South African War in over fifteen war paintings including The Red Cross and S.O.S. Relative to artistic pursuits, money was unimportant to the De Morgans; any profits from sales of Evelyn's paintings went toward financing William's pottery business and she actively contributed ideas to his ceramics designs.
Featured: “William De Morgan,” by Evelyn De Morgan; painted in 1909. This biographical essay was published in 1917 (in the March issue of The North American Review). Although little know today, William de Morgan (1839-1917) was a well-known potter, tile-maker and then a widely read novelist, who was a friend of both William Morris and ...
Background Color: Warm White or Cream. Specifications. Tile: Ceramic. Size: 4.25 inch tiles, and 6 inch, 8 inch. Pricing and Options for De Morgan Red Lustre Tiles. 4.25 inch square tiles: $55 each. Victorian border not available. 6 inch-square tiles without border: $68 each. 8 inch-square tiles without border: $80 each.
Ceramic, Tile Panel, and Tin-glazed Earthenware. Material: Tin-glazed Earthenware. Dimensions: Width 240 mm, Height 1132 mm, Depth 40 mm. Description: Tin glazed earthenware polychrome tile panel of four 6″ tiles and a 3″ make up piece. Decorated in polychrome with honeysuckle, spotty buds and tendrils on a blue ground. One of a pair.
Dimensions: Height 154 mm, Width 154 mm, Depth 10 mm. Description: De Morgan created multiple designs based on the same motif, by changing the background from plain, to decorative or by changing the colour. This particular tile is decorated with a ruby lustre bird with a background of grass sprigs. This tile is one of many charming designs ...
