From a series of tiles based on Chaucer's Legend of Goode Wimmen.This panel is one of two acquired by the Museum from 1 Palace Green, the London house of George Howard, the Earl of Carlisle. As tiles, Chaucer's Legend of Goode Wimmen first appeared on a fireplace in Sandroyd, the house designed by Philip Webb for the painter J.R. Spencer Stanhope in 1860 and furnished thereafter. The figure was designed for windows at Birket Foster's house The Hill. Burne-Jones noted in his passbook now in the Fitzwilliam Museum in 1869: 'To touching up some Good Women and I would rather have been boiled ten times over £1.1.0.' In the Museum's panel, the figure has suffered some of the technical problems that Morris encountered in the firing of his tiles. The skilfully decorated framing Scroll-pattern tiles with special border painted for the Palace Green commission are the only know examples painted at Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co. All other examples of the pattern, and many variations, are Dutch-made.