Tile
Collections:
Classification:
Date:
1625-1650
Medium:
Earthenware
Dimensions:
Overall: 5 x 5 x 1/2 in. ( 12.7 x 12.7 x 1.3 cm )
Description:
White tin-glazed earthenware tile with painted polychrome decoration; red earthenware body with blue-gray glaze with pin pricks in lower left and upper right corners; blue and green tazza or footed bowl of blue, yellow, orange, and green fruit in center with blue chinoiserie lattice corner designs (Wan Li design).
Credit Line:
Purchased from Elie Nadelman, 1937
Object Number:
Z.715
Gallery Label:
This object was once part of the folk art collection of Elie Nadelman (1882-1946), the avant-garde sculptor. From 1924 to 1934, Nadelman's collection was displayed in his Museum of Folk Arts, located in the Riverdale section of the Bronx. The Historical Society purchased Nadelman's entire collection in 1937.
Provenance:
The Folk Art Collection of Elie Nadelman
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1650
eMuseum Object ID:
25962
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Tile
Collections:
Classification:
Date:
1625-1650
Medium:
Earthenware
Dimensions:
Overall: 5 x 5 x 1/2 in. ( 12.7 x 12.7 x 1.3 cm )
Description:
White tin-glazed earthenware tile with painted polychrome decoration; red earthenware body with blue-gray glaze with pin pricks in lower left and upper right corners; blue and green tazza or footed bowl of blue, yellow, orange, and green fruit in center with blue chinoiserie lattice corner designs (Wan Li design).
Credit Line:
Purchased from Elie Nadelman, 1937
Object Number:
Z.714
Gallery Label:
This object was once part of the folk art collection of Elie Nadelman (1882-1946), the avant-garde sculptor. From 1924 to 1934, Nadelman's collection was displayed in his Museum of Folk Arts, located in the Riverdale section of the Bronx. The Historical Society purchased Nadelman's entire collection in 1937.
Provenance:
The Folk Art Collection of Elie Nadelman
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1650
eMuseum Object ID:
25961
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Tile
Collections:
Classification:
Date:
1625-1650
Medium:
Earthenware
Dimensions:
Overall: 5 1/8 x 5 1/8 x 1/2 in. ( 13 x 13 x 1.3 cm )
Description:
White tin-glazed earthenware tile with painted polychrome decoration; red earthenware body with blue-gray glaze with pin pricks in lower left and upper right corners; blue and green tazza or footed bowl of blue, yellow, orange, and green fruit in center with blue chinoiserie lattice corner designs (Wan Li design).
Credit Line:
Purchased from Elie Nadelman, 1937
Object Number:
Z.713
Gallery Label:
This object was once part of the folk art collection of Elie Nadelman (1882-1946), the avant-garde sculptor. From 1924 to 1934, Nadelman's collection was displayed in his Museum of Folk Arts, located in the Riverdale section of the Bronx. The Historical Society purchased Nadelman's entire collection in 1937.
Provenance:
The Folk Art Collection of Elie Nadelman
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1650
eMuseum Object ID:
25960
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Tile
Classification:
Date:
1675-1750
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 blue and white painted decoration; buff-colored body with pinkish-white glaze; scene of structure and trees on island with two boats in right background; upper left corner broken off.
Credit Line:
Gift of S. Alofsen, 1864
Object Number:
INV.8792c
Marks:
written: on reverse; "Presented by/ S. Alofsen/ Dec 1864"
Gallery Label:
The early date at which this tile entered the NYHS collection suggests that it may have been from a NY house.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1750
eMuseum Object ID:
25932
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Tile
Classification:
Date:
1650-1700
Medium:
Earthenware
Dimensions:
Overall: 5 x 5 x 1/4 in. ( 12.7 x 12.7 x 0.6 cm )
Description:
Tin-glazed earthenware tile with blue and white painted decoration; buff-colored body with pin-hole at upper left; scene of seamonster on waves; spider's head corner motifs; lower right corner broken off.
Credit Line:
Gift of S. Alofsen, 1864
Object Number:
INV.8792b
Marks:
written: on reverse, "Presented / by S. Alofsen/ Dec 1864"
Gallery Label:
The early date at which this tile entered the NYHS collection suggests that it may have been from a NY house.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1700
eMuseum Object ID:
25931
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Tile
Collections:
Classification:
Date:
1650-1700
Medium:
Earthenware
Dimensions:
Overall: 5 x 5 x 3/8 in. ( 12.7 x 12.7 x 1 cm )
Description:
Tin-glazed earthenware tile with blue and white decoration; buff-colored body with white glaze; scene of seated shepherd playing a flute with two sheep at left; spider-head corner motifs.
Credit Line:
Purchased from Elie Nadelman, 1937
Object Number:
Z.739
Gallery Label:
This object was once part of the folk art collection of Elie Nadelman (1882-1946), the avant-garde sculptor. From 1924 to 1934, Nadelman's collection was displayed in his Museum of Folk Arts, located in the Riverdale section of the Bronx. The Historical Society purchased Nadelman's entire collection in 1937.
Provenance:
The Folk Art Collection of Elie Nadelman
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1700
eMuseum Object ID:
25928
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Tile
Collections:
Classification:
Date:
1765-1775
Medium:
Earthenware
Dimensions:
Overall: 4 7/8 x 5 x 1/4 in. ( 12.4 x 12.7 x 0.6 cm )
Description:
White tin-glazed earthenware tile with red transfer-printed decoration; buff-colored earthenware body; square frame made of scrolls ("88" border) containing a man embracing a woman with shepherdess's crook beneath a treee with a woman wringing her hands in the background.
Credit Line:
Purchased from Elie Nadelman, 1937
Object Number:
Z.744
Gallery Label:
This object was once part of the folk art collection of Elie Nadelman (1882-1946), the avant-garde sculptor. From 1924 to 1934, Nadelman's collection was displayed in his Museum of Folk Arts, located in the Riverdale section of the Bronx. The Historical Society purchased Nadelman's entire collection in 1937.
Provenance:
The Folk Art Collection of Elie Nadelman
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1775
eMuseum Object ID:
25915
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Book flask
Classification:
Date:
1849-1858
Medium:
Earthenware
Dimensions:
Overall: 8 1/4 x 2 5/8 x 5 3/4 in. ( 21 x 6.7 x 14.6 cm )
Description:
Molded yellowware flask in shape of a book with five horizontal bands on spine and circular opening on top; brown mottled glaze (Rockingham) with green flecks.
Credit Line:
Gift of Clarence G. Michalis
Object Number:
1953.713
Marks:
impressed: on spine: "KOSSUTH"
Gallery Label:
Lajos Kossuth, a Hungarian revolutionary leader, toured the United States in 1851 at the invitation of the U.S. government. A popular hero, not unlike Lafayette, Kossuth inspired the production of commemorative objects such as this flask.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1858
eMuseum Object ID:
25896
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Tile
Collections:
Classification:
Date:
1700-1800
Medium:
Earthenware
Dimensions:
Overall: 5 1/8 x 5 1/8 x 3/8 in. ( 13 x 13 x 1 cm )
Description:
Tin-glazed earthenware tile with blue and white decoration; buff-colored body with pinkish-white glaze and pin-prick on lower left; scene of shepherd with two sheep to right; spider-head corner motifs.
Credit Line:
Purchased from Elie Nadelman, 1937
Object Number:
Z.740
Gallery Label:
This object was once part of the folk art collection of Elie Nadelman (1882-1946), the avant-garde sculptor. From 1924 to 1934, Nadelman's collection was displayed in his Museum of Folk Arts, located in the Riverdale section of the Bronx. The Historical Society purchased Nadelman's entire collection in 1937.
Provenance:
The Folk Art Collection of Elie Nadelman
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1800
eMuseum Object ID:
25882
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Tile
Classification:
Date:
1700-1750
Medium:
Earthenware
Dimensions:
Overall: 5 x 5 x 1/4 in. ( 12.7 x 12.7 x 0.6 cm )
Description:
Tin-glazed earthenware tile with purple, blue, and white decoration; buff-colored body with white glaze with pin-prick on upper left and right corners; circular blue and white picture of shepherd with two sheep on left all in white diamond-shaped frame with perpendicular lines to corners, on purple spattered field; lower right corner cut away.
Object Number:
INV.8795b
Gallery Label:
According to the inscripton on the obverse, the tile came from a structure in Brooklyn. The envelope in which the tile was found records that the tile was discovered in the NYHS collection in 1953, and may have been part of the Nash collection.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1750
eMuseum Object ID:
25881
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
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