To give people pleasure in the things they must perforce use, that is one great office of decoration; to give people pleasure in the things they must perforce make, that is the other use of it. Does not our subject look important enough now? I say that without these arts, our rest would be vacant and uninteresting, our labour mere endurance, mere wearing away of body and mind. ~William Morris, The Decorative Arts: Their Relation to Modern Life and Progress

These Edward Burne-Jones tiles from the second series of Chaucer's Legend of Good Wimmen is that these tiles were taken directly from stained glass designs. Probably painted by Burne-Jones himself, they were installed as flanking fireplace tiles, possible at Wightwick Manor although these are not the tiles installed there now.

Characters from mythology were a popular subject for Morris and his Pre-Raphaelite contemporaries. Many of the Burne-Jones tile designs were later implemented as stained glass. The Legend of Good Wimmen series, however, was first implemented as tile and then as stained glass.

Both 6 and 8 inch tiles are available.