Tile with Sancta Cecilia, by Burne-Jones

An image of Art Pottery. Tile. Sancta Cecilia. Burne-Jones, Edward (British, 1833-1898). Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co. Faulkner, Kate, painter (British, 1842-1898). A head and shoulders painted portrait of a woman, drawn in black, set on a deep blue ground. Her long, wavy, blonde hair is tucked behind her ear and she wears a green cap and gown. She holds a scroll of music in her right hand. Around her head is an elaborate halo, inscribed 'SANCTA CECILIA'. The glaze is dull, the sides of the tile are unglazed and the back is flat and rough. Cut down 6 inch tile. Buff earthenware, slip-coated, glazed and painted in blue, yellow, sage green, flesh-pink and black enamel colours, diameter 15.2 cm, circa 1865. Arts and Crafts. Notes: Saint Cecilia is the patron saint of musicians and Church music.

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Art Pottery. Tile. Sancta Cecilia. Burne-Jones, Edward (British, 1833-1898). Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co. Faulkner, Kate, painter (British, 1842-1898). A head and shoulders painted portrait of a woman, drawn in black, set on a deep blue ground. Her long, wavy, blonde hair is tucked behind her ear and she wears a green cap and gown. She holds a scroll of music in her right hand. Around her head is an elaborate halo, inscribed 'SANCTA CECILIA'. The glaze is dull, the sides of the tile are unglazed and the back is flat and rough. Cut down 6 inch tile. Buff earthenware, slip-coated, glazed and painted in blue, yellow, sage green, flesh-pink and black enamel colours, diameter 15.2 cm, circa 1865. Arts and Crafts. Notes: Saint Cecilia is the patron saint of musicians and Church music.

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Accession Number: C.2-1922
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/16.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H4D-31
Photographer name: Michael Jones
Image height: 1024 pixels
Image width: 1015 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 790.77kB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 16/1

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19th Century art pottery Arts and Crafts blonde British Burne-Jones circular earthenware Edward Burne-Jones enamel female Fitz_AA glazed Kate Faulkner Morris and Company pottery Pre-Raphaelite religion religious roundel Saint Cecilia saints scrolls Sir Edward Burne-Jones slip slip-coated slipware St Cecilia tiles woman

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