
Anna Burnside
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With Tristram Jellinek, 1991
Graham Slater Collection
See English Tin-Glazed Tiles by Jonathan Horne (1989), pp.110-113 for a discussion of these rare recessed tiles, which were presumably intended to accommodate a candle or perhaps soap. A wash-basin recess comprised of 48 tiles and four niche tiles of similar type to the present lot was in the Louis Lipski Collection and is now displayed in the Tile Gallery of the Victoria and Albert Museum (inv. no.C.13:1-1980). The four recess tiles are painted with similar classical figures but have powder manganese borders.