This design is closely based upon Morgan Le Fay, a Burne-Jones painting of 1862, now in the Cecil French Bequest Gallery Collection of the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham. The pot, originally meant for Le Fay's magic potion, is this case presumably contains the poison Medea will spread on Glauce's golden robes. Sotheby's 2008
First made in 1862 and then destroyed, the design re-emerged in 1864 for stained glass as part of the Goode Wimmen series, it was then that a watercolour version was made and also converted into this tile project. The watercolour is held in the Cecil French Bequest Gallery Collection of the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham collection, the cartoon for the glass in held in Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery. The conversion to a tile design was made in 1865.