A rare William De Morgan eight tile panel, for the fireplace mantel, painted with a frieze of a

A rare William De Morgan eight tile panel, for the fireplace mantel, painted with a frieze of a central owl flanked by four eagles to each side, glazed in colours on a blue ground, framed,

marks concealed,

20.5cm square (each tile)

169.5 x 26cm (frame)

Provenance

Halsey Ricardo, thence by descent.

Literature

Jon Catleugh William De Morgan Tiles, Trefoil, page 171 for a watercolour of a child by Edith Brinton, 1912, featuring the tiles above the fireplace in the background.