Gideon a fine Della Robbia two-tile panel designed by Ford Madox Brown

Gideon a fine Della Robbia two-tile panel designed by Ford Madox Brown, by Emily Margaret Wood, possibly dated 1898, modelled in low relief with Saint Gideon in full armour, on a scrolling vine ground, painted in colours, framed incised and painted marks, EMW monogram, incised 3/98, 70 x 42cm. (panel)

Literature

Rob Higgins & Christopher Stolbert Robinson William De Morgan Arts and Crafts Potter Shire Library, page 62 this actual tile panel illustrated.

Charles Sewter The Stained Glass of William Morris & His Circle, Yale, catalogue number 75 for the original cartoon.

The Harrimann Judd Collection of British Art Pottery, Part 2, Sotheby's New York October 6th 2001 lot 380 for the only other known example (now in the Delaware Art Museum) erroneously listed as a female knight.

Catalogue notes

The panel has a paper label to the reverse stating that the figure is Archangel Michael designed by Ford Madox Brown for Morris & Co and made by his pupil Harold Rathbone at the Della Robbia Pottery. It is actually from Ford Madox Brown's design of Gideon for a stained glass window by Morris & Co at St Martins on the Hill, Scarborough. The window depicts Joshua, St Michael and Gideon and was designed in 1862.