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| Keywords: English - Rice Dish - Walters 482756 - Top.jpg William De Morgan was a designer potter and novelist who became a pivotal figure in the English Arts and Crafts Movement which was inspired by the ideals of the Socialist William Morris Intrigued with the iridescent sheen obtained by firing silver in making stained glass his first field of artistic endeavor De Morgan used a similar technique to decorate ceramic tiles His most characteristic designs are schematized sometimes grotesque birds animals and flowers recalling the work of William Morris This dish is signed with the initials of the decorator Charles Passenger between 1898 1907 earthenware cm 4 4 31 1 h x diam accession number 48 2756 34062 Warren Baker date and mode of acquisition unknown Mrs Arthur J Gutman Baltimore date and mode of acquisition unknown Walters Art Museum Gift of Mrs Arthur J Gutman 2002 place of origin Brompton Road present-day London England United Kingdom Walters Art Museum license English pottery Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review Collections of the Walters Art Museum Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs artist review William De Morgan | ||||
