A super quartered aesthetic design with
alternating hanging flowers and tessellated
squares very well engraved and printed in
steely-blue on white. Based upon a design sold
by Morris & Co which is illustrated in
William Morris Tiles by Richard and Hillary
Myers on page 118. The accompanying description
is:
Figure 205, - 'Tulips & Chequers'.
Dutch, Ravesteijn pattern 441 (1872-74); in
glaze blue on 5-inch tiles. 'Tulips &
Chequers' was a late nineteenth-century
(probably Dutch) design which achieved a
popularity with the firm's own designs, here it
is mixed in a fireplace with Dutch versions of
Morris's Scroll tiles.
Pattern number 2240 indicates an introduction
date of early 1888. This design appears on sheet
32 in the catalogue in what appears to be the
same colour and is described as 'Blue on White',
on the same page are two other blues, 'Electric'
and 'Turquoise'.
Verso quite clean embossed name and
badge.
