A rare and probably unique set of ten Pilkington's Lancastrian Nursery Rhyme tiles by Margaret

A rare and probably unique set of ten Pilkington's Lancastrian Nursery Rhyme tiles by Margaret Pilkington, designed in 1917, each rectangular and tubeline decorated in colours, in ebonised wood frames, comprising;

Simple Simon,

Goosey, Goosey Gander

Hush a Bye Baby!

Little Blue Boy

Little Miss Muffit

I Had a Little Nut Tree

Little Jack Horner

Pussy Cat, Where Have You Been

Ride a Cock Horse to Banbury Cross

Sing a Song of Sixpence

22 x 14.5cm (tile)

25.5 x 18cm (frame). (10)

Provenance

Lawrence Burton, thence by descent