Tile
Classification:
Date:
1640-1670
Medium:
Earthenware
Dimensions:
Overall: 5 x 5 x 1/2 in. ( 12.7 x 12.7 x 1.3 cm )
Description:
Tin-glazed earthenware tile with buff-colored body, white glaze, and painted polychrome deocration; tulip growing from bulb in diamond-shaped frame with saw-tooth edge and curls at each point, fleur-de-lis corner corner motifs; pin-holes in upper left and lower right corners.
Object Number:
Z.781
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1670
eMuseum Object ID:
26285
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Tile
Classification:
Date:
1640-1670
Medium:
Earthenware
Dimensions:
Overall: 5 1/2 x 5 x 1/2 in. ( 14 x 12.7 x 1.3 cm )
Description:
Tin-glazed earthenware tile with buff-colored body, white glaze, and painted polychrome deocration; tulip growing from bulb in diamond-shaped frame with saw-tooth edge and curls at each point, fleur-de-lis corner corner motifs; pin-holes in lower left and upper right corners.
Object Number:
Z.780
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1670
eMuseum Object ID:
26284
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Tile
Classification:
Date:
1725-1775
Medium:
Earthenware
Dimensions:
Overall: 5 1/8 x 5 1/8 x 1/4 in. ( 13 x 13 x 0.6 cm )
Description:
Tin-glazed earthenware tile with painted blue and white decoration; buff-colored body with bluish-white glaze; rondel with biblical scene of two figures in landscape, one on left kneeling and being blessed by figure on right; ox-head corner motifs; tile broken with restoration and infill to top and right side.
Credit Line:
Gift of George W. W. Houghton
Object Number:
INV.8787s
Gallery Label:
According to a label on the box in which these tiles were found, this tile comes from the William Walton House, at 326 Pearl (formerly Queen) Street, NYC, erected in 1752 and demolished in 1881. The tile was given to the N-YHS in 1881 or 1882. At least two different sets of tiles survive; one with a purple arabesque design and another with blue and white biblical scenes and several other unrelated designs.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1775
eMuseum Object ID:
26278
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Tile
Classification:
Date:
1725-1775
Medium:
Earthenware
Dimensions:
Overall: 5 1/8 x 5 1/8 x 1/4 in. ( 13 x 13 x 0.6 cm )
Description:
Tin-glazed earthenware tile with painted blue and white decoration; buff-colored body with bluish-white glaze; rondel with biblical scene of two figures in a landscape, figure on left with halo being blessed by figure on right with bird above with rays down to figure with halo (poosibly the Annunciation); ox-head corner motifs; tile broken with restoration and infill to lower left corner and center.
Credit Line:
Gift of George W. W. Houghton
Object Number:
INV.8787v
Gallery Label:
According to a label on the box in which these tiles were found, this tile comes from the William Walton House, at 326 Pearl (formerly Queen) Street, NYC, erected in 1752 and demolished in 1881. The tile was given to the N-YHS in 1881 or 1882. At least two different sets of tiles survive; one with a purple arabesque design and another with blue and white biblical scenes and several other unrelated designs.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1775
eMuseum Object ID:
26276
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Tile
Classification:
Date:
1725-1775
Medium:
Earthenware
Dimensions:
Overall: 5 1/8 x 5 1/8 x 1/4 in. ( 13 x 13 x 0.6 cm )
Description:
Tin-glazed earthenware tile with painted blue and white decoration; buff-colored body with bluish-white glaze; rondel with biblical scene of two figures flanking a smoking alter, figure on left levitating, figure on right on knees; ox-head corner motifs; tile broken with restoration and infill to top and right side.
Credit Line:
Gift of George W. W. Houghton
Object Number:
INV.8787p
Gallery Label:
According to a label on the box in which these tiles were found, this tile comes from the William Walton House, at 326 Pearl (formerly Queen) Street, NYC, erected in 1752 and demolished in 1881. The tile was given to the N-YHS in 1881 or 1882. At least two different sets of tiles survive; one with a purple arabesque design and another with blue and white biblical scenes and several other unrelated designs.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1775
eMuseum Object ID:
26273
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Tile
Classification:
Date:
1725-1775
Medium:
Earthenware
Dimensions:
Overall: 5 1/8 x 5 1/8 x 1/4 in. ( 13 x 13 x 0.6 cm )
Description:
Tin-glazed earthenware tile with painted blue and white decoration; buff-colored body with bluish-white glaze; rondel with biblical scene of figure praying on hill with campground in left background; ox-head corner motifs; tile broken with restoration and infill to top and right side.
Credit Line:
Gift of George W. W. Houghton
Object Number:
INV.8787r
Gallery Label:
According to a label on the box in which these tiles were found, this tile comes from the William Walton House, at 326 Pearl (formerly Queen) Street, NYC, erected in 1752 and demolished in 1881. The tile was given to the N-YHS in 1881 or 1882. At least two different sets of tiles survive; one with a purple arabesque design and another with blue and white biblical scenes and several other unrelated designs.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1775
eMuseum Object ID:
26271
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Tile
Classification:
Date:
1850-1866
Medium:
Earthenware
Dimensions:
Overall: 8 1/2 x 8 1/2 x 3/4 in. ( 21.6 x 21.6 x 1.9 cm )
Description:
Tin-glazed earthenware tile with blue-and-white transfer-printed decoration; scene of four sheep on mountain; lower right corner cut off; framed in black wood frame.
Credit Line:
Gift of George W. Nash
Object Number:
N-390.2
Marks:
written: on reverse, "June 7, 1922"
Gallery Label:
This tile was orignially installed in the club house of the American Jockey Club located in Jerome Park, Kingsbridge in the north-western Bronx. The club house was built in 1866 and demolished in 1898.
Provenance:
The George W. Nash Collection of Ulster County, New York Household Artifacts
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1866
eMuseum Object ID:
26262
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Tile
Classification:
Date:
1850-1866
Medium:
Earthenware
Dimensions:
Overall: 4 1/4 x 6 x 1/2 in. ( 10.8 x 15.2 x 1.3 cm )
Description:
Encaustic tile with red body and cream and black slip creating a stylized dart-and-tongue design.
Credit Line:
Gift of George W. Nash
Object Number:
N-388
Gallery Label:
This tile was orignially installed in the club house of the American Jockey Club located in Jerome Park, Kingsbridge in the northwestern Bronx. The club house was built in 1866 and demolished in 1898.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1866
eMuseum Object ID:
26260
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Tile
Classification:
Date:
1640-1670
Medium:
Earthenware
Dimensions:
Overall: 5 3/8 x 5 1/8 x 3/4 in. ( 13.7 x 13 x 1.9 cm )
Description:
Tin-glazed earthenware tile with buff colored body, gray-white glaze, and painted polychrome decoration; double snake's-head in diamond-shaped frame with saw-tooth edge at center and fleur-de-lis in each corner; pin holes at lower left and upper right corners; some concrete and plaster affixed to sides and back.
Object Number:
INV.908a
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1670
eMuseum Object ID:
26259
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Tile
Classification:
Date:
1640-1670
Medium:
Earthenware
Dimensions:
Overall: 5 1/2 x 5 5/8 x 1 1/2 in. ( 14 x 14.3 x 3.8 cm )
Description:
Tin-glazed earthenware tile with buff colored body, gray-white glaze, and painted polychrome decoration; double snake's-head in diamond-shaped frame with saw-tooth edge at center and fleur-de-lis in each corner; pin holes at lower left and upper right corners; concrete affixed to right side and to back.
Object Number:
Z.844
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1670
eMuseum Object ID:
26256
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
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