A VICTORIAN EBONIZED MOTHER-OF-PEARL AND MINTON TILE-INLAID PARLOR SUITE,late 19th century. Comprising a settee and four side chairs. The scrolling brass-inlaid triple chair-back settee with arched crests and turned finials above three Mintons tiles, each signed Moyr Smith, the designer of the series of twelve subjects from Sir Walter Scott's Waverly novels introduced and exhibited in Paris in 1878, the tiles in underglaze print in grey, black and yellow on a white slip ground within a mother-of-pearl inlaid border over four spindle supports above a padded seat and arms, the arms inlaid with mother-of-pearl, raised on turned tapering legs ending in peg feet; with four matching chairs. The tiles include "Fortunes of Nigel", "Bride of Lammermoor", "The Talisman" and others. - Settee: 37in. x 44in. x 23in.; Chairs: 37in. x 17 1/2in. x 16 1/2in. Estimate $2,000-3,000
Ref: Terence A. Lockett, "Collecting Victorian Tiles", p.133
