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Copeland Shakespeare 8" Gilt Tile Pericles, Prince of Tyre

Style/technique: Pictorial printed, painted and gilded

Manufacturer: W T Copeland

Pattern Name: Shakepeare series

Dimensions: 8" x 8"

Date: 1878

An outstanding example of the art of tile decoration in rapturous colour and brilliantly glazed and gilded. Absolute quality in all respects, super rich underglaze colours including red and purple rarely found underglaze at this date and the background gilded and burnished.
The tile illustrates a scene from the lesser known Shakespeare play Pericles, Prince of Tyre and shows Pericles, Princess Thaisa and her father King Simonides. A storm wrecks Pericles' ship and washes him up on the shores of Pentapolis. He is rescued by a group of poor fishermen who inform him that Simonedes, King of Pentapolis, is holding a tournament the next day and that the winner will receive the hand of his daughter Thaisa in marriage. Fortunately, one of the fishermen drags Pericles' suit of armor on shore that very moment, and the prince decides to enter the tournament. Although his equipment is rusty, Pericles wins the tournament and the hand of Thaisa in marriage.

Austwick has a colour illustration from the series on page 57, Lockett has two drawings from the Copeland pattern book on page 137.

Plastic clay porcelain-like body verso combed and impressed with Copeland mark and date stamp.

The second image is with the tile tilted slightly so that the gliding catches the light.

Condition: Near perfect
Price: £580 (approx $1150)
Ref: 02611

Small chip upper left edge, few extremely minor surface marks.

UK Special Delivery £590

US and World Airsure £600

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The image is a little oversize rather than cropped close to the edges so that the edges can easily be seen and any chips etc can be quickly spotted. Surface marks described are usually not visible at all when the tile is viewed straight as one normally sees it and can only be seen with a critical eye when the tile is tilted to catch imperfections in reflected light. For more details of how we describe marks see Condition.

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