A similar example is illustrated in Richard and Hilary Myers, William Morris Tiles, Shepton Beauchamp, 1996, p.21, pl.32 and described as 'the central section of the only recorded tile-panel from a series of nine Greek mythology subjects by Burne-Jones in 1862'.

The subject depicts Paris, the son of Priam, king of Troy, choosing between Venus, Minerva and Juno. He choose Venus and gave her an apple inscribed 'To the fairest'. Venus promised him the love of any woman but encouraged him to select Helen, the wife of Menelaus, king of Sparta. He then sailed to Sparta to abduct Helen but in so doing provoked the Trojan war.