The designs post-date the Cinderella tiles commission for The Hill, and were copied from Burne-Jones's original drawings by one of the Firm's draughtsmen. They were probably used for later versions of the panels. The 1862 Exhibition at South Kensington established the year-old Morris firm and as a result they obtained several commissions including (according to Georgiana Burne-Jones) 'one for coloured tiles which proved a welcome outlet for [her husband's] abounding humour and in this form the stories of Beauty and the Beast and Cinderella took at his hands as quaint a shape as they wear in the pages of the brothers Grimm of blessed memory'. This commission, which included other tiles, stained glass and furniture, was for the decoration of The Hill at Witley, Surrey, being built for the watercolourist Myles Birket Foster. Burne-Jones was to design three sets of narrative tile-panels for the house, telling the stories of 'Sleeping Beauty' as well as of 'Cinderella' and 'Beauty and the Beast'. 'Cinderella' was the first, and originally consisted of ten designs for which Burne-Jones received a total of 7.10s in September 1862. For the 'Sleeping Beauty' series Burne-Jones received 30s per design in January 1864. Clients when ordering tiles could omit or add to the number of scenes as they wished. All six scenes in the original overmantel from The Hill (now in the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool) were painted by Lucy Faulkner, a sister of Morris' partner Charles Faulkner, who together with another sister Kate, produced many of the firm's best quality tiles. For the designs Burne-Jones acknowledged the influence of the German wood-engravers Alfred Rethel, and in particular, Ludwig Richter of whom he was to write, 'The Richter you ask about is a veritable angel. There are many books of his, and he made heavenly little pictures always, drawing everything that makes happy and never anything vile'. Morris & Co. retained drawings and watercolours of the fairytale tiles until the demise of the firm in 1938. The tile depicting Cinderella fleeing the ball represents scene IV in the 'Cinderella' narrative and the scene of the inhabitants of the castle awakening after their one hundred year sleep represents scene VIII in the 'Beauty and the Beast' narrative.