£280
A documentary Maw & Co moulded tile, dated 1872, of Sarpedon, modelled by Reginald Palgrave after the bas relief by Musgrave Lewthwaite Watson (1804-1847) in light grey majolica glaze, 17 x 24cm, impressed Maw & Co, inscribed in ink "Grace Palgrave from her affectionate husband the modeller... May 1872" and two Maw & Co email ombrant tiles (3)
Sir Reginald Francis Douce Palgrave (1829-1904) Clerk of the House of Commons was the son of Sir Francis Palgrave and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of the banker and antiquary Dawson Turner FRS, FSA. Palgrave was a keen watercolourist and "...for an amateur an exceptionally skilful modeller in low relief" (source: DNB). He married, in 1857, Grace Battley. Palgrave was a cousin of Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, for whom he modelled memorial tablets to Hooker's father, Sir William Jackson Hooker (1785-1865) and wife Francis (d.1874)
Sarpedon tile - slight graze upper right corner
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