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12" Tile

Ref: 2173
  • Designer / Maker

    Designed by A.W.N. Pugin (1812-52)

    Manufactured by Minton & Co. (1796-1968)

  • Detail

    Red earthenware inlaid with buff

    30.5 x 30.5 cm

    English (Stoke-on-Trent), designed 1847, manufactured circa 1850

  • Marked

    ‘MINTON & Co. / PATENT / STOKE-UPON-TRENT’ impressed to back (see right)

  • Provenance

    New Palace of Westminster; […]; John Scott collection, 3 September 1994; with Haslam & Whiteway, 2005; private collection 2005-18

  • Literature

    Alexandra Wedgwood, A.W.N. Pugin and the Pugin Family, 1985, p.322 (for an identical tile, presented to the V&A by the Department of Environment in 1982.

  • Collection

    Private collection

  • Notes

    This three lion pattern was designed by Pugin for the fireplace of the Prince’s Chamber, at the Palace of Westminster. The example at the V&A (C.150-1982) is from the House of Commons, laid in 1850.