'Lucretia' a rare Morris & Co three tile panel

'Lucretia' a rare Morris & Co three tile panel, designed by Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, circa 1862-65 glazed earthenware, painted with a figure holding a sword, framed in original wood frame stamped Morris & Co to reverse, top tile restored, tiles 45 x 15cm. Provenance Mrs Lucius Gubbins, after 1934 Private collection Exhibited Morris Centenary Exhibition Victoria & Albert Museum, London 1934 William Morris Tiles, William Morris Gallery 1996-7 catalogue number 80, page 23 Literature Richard & Hilary Myers Morris Tiles, Richard Dennis Publications, page 90 plate 34a this panel illustrated Lucretia, whose rape and suicide led to the establishment of the Roman Republic, also appears in Burne-Jones's studies for Chaucer's Legend of Good Women. Six of these became stained glass windows for the Combination Room, Peterhouse College, Cambridge. Burne-Jones's designs were also reproduced in designs for embroidery and as a series of two tile panels. These three tile Morris & Co tile panels are rare with only five known to exist. Etta May Gubbins (1871-1955) who purchased these tiles after the 1934 exhibition, was a New Zealander who had settled in Eastbourne with her Husband Lucius Gubbins after the First World War. She became a considerable patron of Morris & Co.