Tile: foliate motif
- Title : Tile: foliate motif
- Artist: William De Morgan Designer
- Accession: TD1992.104.1
- Country: Great Britain London
- Date: circa 1882 1888
- Dimensions: Inches 6-1/8 6-1/8 1/2, Centimeters 15.6 15.6 1.3
- Collection: Object
- Category: Interior Design
- Collection Theme: Arts and Crafts
- Subject: Interior Decoration , Orientalism , Domestic , Ceramics/Ceramic Design , Floral
- Credit Line: The Wolfsonian–Florida International University, Miami Beach, Florida, The Mitchell Wolfson, Jr. Collection
- URL: TD1992.104.1.JPG
- Tags: Arts and Crafts~British Arts and Crafts~Decorative Arts and Furniture~Interior Design
Description:
Square ceramic gloss glazed tile in turquoise, green, blue, ultramarine, purple, and brown of an Islamic inspired foliate motif; design pattern features a stylized curvilinear-shaped flower in bloom flanked by smaller flowers that are surrounded by green leaves; each tile joins together with other tiles decorated in a similar, but not identical, floral design to form a larger group pattern; each design is set against a greenish-gray background.
