The scenes depict: I: Cinderella helping her step-mother and step-sisters to prepare for the ball II: In tears, she is found by her fairy godmother, who transforms her clothes into a gown and gives her glass slippers for the ball, warning her not to stay beyond midnight III: Unrecognised by the assembled company, Cinderella dances with the Prince IV: As the clock strikes midnight she runs off, losing one of the slippers, which is picked up by the Prince V: The Prince's herald announces that his master will wed the slipper's owner VI: The slipper fits Cinderella and she pulls the matching shoe from her pocket VII: Wedding scene (originally designed for the related 'Sleeping Beauty' series) Only a handful of sets of 'Cinderella' tiles are known to have survived. The Morris firm's products came to the attention of the artist Myles Birket Foster at the 1862 International Exhibition. Birket Foster commissioned the original set of six Cinderella designs for a bedroom overmantel in his house The Hill at Witley, Surrey, with two pairs of complementary vertical panels flanking the grate itself. Burne-Jones completed these by September 1862, followed by the 'Sleeping Beauty' and 'Beauty and the Beast' for two more bedrooms in 1863 and 1864. Later, Morris's clients would sometimes select different combinations of scenes when ordering tiles, and the inclusion of the final two tiles depicting the Wedding scene from the 'Sleeping Beauty' has been used with both 'Beauty and the Beast' and here with 'Cinderella'. Importantly, the tile from the current lot all appear to have been decorated for a single commission. At the current time only three sets of the Cinderella series are documented. Those produced for The Hill are now in the collection of the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool and another set is in the Sandford & Helen Berger Collection now in the Huntington Library, California. A set also featuring the final wedding scene, comprised of tiles decorated over an extended period, was sold at Christie's London, 12 May 1999, lot 227. The current lot is a fourth, previously unrecorded, set.