Tile
Collections:
Classification:
Date:
1700-1800
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 pinkish-white glaze and pin-pricks at lower right and upper left and right; scene of building with well sweep on island with boats in the background; spider-head corner motifs.
Credit Line:
Purchased from Elie Nadelman, 1937
Object Number:
Z.751
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:
25520
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Tile
Collections:
Classification:
Date:
1700-1800
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 decoration; buff-colored body with grayish-white glaze and pin-pricks at lower left and upper right; scene of church on island with boats in the background; spider-head corner motifs.
Credit Line:
Purchased from Elie Nadelman, 1937
Object Number:
Z.750
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:
25519
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Tile
Collections:
Classification:
Date:
1700-1800
Medium:
Earthenware
Dimensions:
Overall: 5 1/4 x 5 1/8 x 1/4 in. ( 13.3 x 13 x 0.6 cm )
Description:
Tin-glazed earthenware tile with blue and white decoration; buff-colored body with pinkish-white glaze and pin-prick at upper right; scene of building with tower at right with two boats on the water at left; spider-head corner motifs; tile is broken and has been repaired and infilled.
Credit Line:
Purchased from Elie Nadelman, 1937
Object Number:
Z.749
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:
25516
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Platter
Classification:
Date:
1784-1785
Medium:
Porcelain
Dimensions:
Overall: 1 7/8 x 14 1/4 x 11 5/8 in. ( 4.8 x 36.2 x 29.5 cm )
Description:
Chinese export porcelain platter with polychrome decoration on white ground; rectangular with scalloped edges; underglaze blue border of butterflies, plant motifs, and diapering in the "Fitzhugh" pattern; in the center, an overglaze polychrome winged figure of fame holding the eagle insignia of the Society of the Cincinnati.
Object Number:
X.524
Marks:
in pencil: on underside; "Made in Lowestoft"
Gallery Label:
Emblazoned with the emblem of the Society of the Cincinnati, an organization of Revolutionary War officers, this platter is from a set of porcelain commisioned by Samuel Shaw in China in 1784-85. It was purchased by Henry Lee in New York in 1786 acting as an agent for George Washington, or may have been part of the set purchased for Lee's own use. The Washington service descended to George Washington Parke Custis and then Robert E. Lee.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1785
eMuseum Object ID:
25489
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Tile
Classification:
Date:
1760-1770
Medium:
Earthenware
Dimensions:
Overall: 5 1/8 x 5 x 1/4 in. ( 13 x 12.7 x 0.6 cm )
Description:
Tin-glazed earthenware tile with polychrome decoration; buff-colored body with blue-white glaze; orange, yellow, and blue bird standing on purple and blue ground; lower right side broken off.
Credit Line:
Gift of S. and A.C. Loveland
Object Number:
INV.8794a
Marks:
written: on reverse; "S+AC Loveland/ from parlor/ + kitchen/ L.I. House."
Gallery Label:
According to an inscription on the reverse, this tile is from the parlor or kitchen of a Long Island home.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1770
eMuseum Object ID:
25478
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 1/4 in. ( 13 x 13 x 0.6 cm )
Description:
Tin-glazed earthenware tile with blue and white decoration; buff-colored body with pinkish-white glaze; scene of sailboat on water with sailboats and church steeples in background; spider-head corner motifs.
Credit Line:
Purchased from Elie Nadelman, 1937
Object Number:
Z.755
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:
25473
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Tile
Collections:
Classification:
Date:
1700-1800
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 decoration; buff-colored body with pinkish-white glaze; scene of sailboat on water with sailboats in background; spider-head corner motifs; glaze is bubbled.
Credit Line:
Purchased from Elie Nadelman, 1937
Object Number:
Z.754
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:
25470
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 1/4 in. ( 13 x 13 x 0.6 cm )
Description:
Tin-glazed earthenware tile with blue and white decoration; buff-colored body with grayish white glaze with pin-pricks at upper left and lower right; scene of sailboat on water with boats and house in background; spider-head corner motifs.
Credit Line:
Purchased from Elie Nadelman, 1937
Object Number:
Z.753
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:
25468
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Tile
Classification:
Date:
1904
Medium:
Glazed earthenware
Dimensions:
Overall: 4 1/2 x 4 1/2 x 1/2 in. ( 11.4 x 11.4 x 1.3 cm )
Description:
Square, earthenware tile with opaque green, yellow, and red glazes. The style of this tile reflects the Arts and Crafts and the pre-Raphaelite movements, popular in America in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In the center of the tile, the raised head of a medieval king is superimposed over a red cross. The king wears a crown with a fleur de lis on top. The king's head faces right, and there is a spear on either side of the head, also superimposed over the cross. Shallow impressed lines in the green background of the tile give the impression of light emanating from the center of the tile. Above the decoration is the impressed word "EXPOSITION", with the words "ST. LOUIS 1904" below. The back of the tile has an impressed rectangular area with the raised words, "THE/ HARTFORD FAIENCE CO./ HARTFORD, CONN." Original square cardboard box with inscription; "ST. LOUIS TILE/ MOST ARTISTIC SOUVENIER/ AT THE FAIR/ MADE BY/ THE HARTFORD FAIENCE CO./ HARTFORD, CONN."
Credit Line:
Gift of John V. Irwin
Object Number:
1949.17
Marks:
in relief: on tile; "EXPOSITION / ST. LOUIS 1904"
stamped: on reverse; "THE / HARTFORD FAIENCE CO. / HARTFORD, CONN."
printed: on box; "ST. LOUIS TILE / MOST ARTISTIC SOUVENIR / AT THE FAIR / MADE BY / THE HARTFORD FAIENCE CO./ HARTFORD, CONN."
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1904
eMuseum Object ID:
25435
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Plaque
Classification:
Date:
1837-1850
Medium:
Lead-glazed earthenware
Dimensions:
Overall: 9 1/2 x 13 x 1/4 in. ( 24.1 x 33 x 0.6 cm )
Description:
Transfer-printed lead-glazed earthenware (pearlware) plaque or slab; rectangular plaque with black transfer-print of view of the U.S. Capitol in Washington D.C. looking up Pennsylvania Avenue on obverse, with pink transfer-print of Fort Hamilton and the Narrows, New York, on reverse.
Object Number:
X.69
Gallery Label:
The views of the Capitol and Fort Hamilton are taken from drawings by W.H. Bartlett, which were published in London in 1837 and 1838. Staffordshire potters Thomas Goodwin (active 1829-1843) and William Ridgway are known to have used these prints on ceramics.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1850
eMuseum Object ID:
25432
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
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