The British Museum has a book of designs made by Burne- Jones between 1885 and 1898 which includes some very simple and finished drawings of objects. In one there is a tree grow- ing out of a ship (fig. 23). The strange conjunction and the framed design recall the emblems popular in the Renaissance and the seventeenth century. The image is in one way ordinary and in another strange. It stands as an emblem of what is dis- tinctive in Burne-Jones’s decorative art.