A rare Minton & Hollins Alphabet tile designed by Godfrey Sykes

A rare Minton & Hollins Alphabet tile designed by Godfrey Sykes, originally designed for the Refreshment Room at the V&A, modelled in low relief as the letter H, with standing boy reading book, glazed white unsigned, 30 x 26.5cm.

Literature

Minton 1798-1910 Victoria & Albert Museum, 1976 front cover the letter M tile plaque illustrated on the front cover.

The Andrew McIntosh Patrick Collection, The Fine Art Society, page 148 catalogue 306 for the letter B plaque.

Catalogue notes

Henry Cole asked Godfrey Sykes, still a young man in thirties, a former pupil of Alfred Stevens to assist him with the decoration of the South Kensington Museum. The designs, although created in 1864, were produced posthumously after Sykes death in 1866.