Tile
Classification:
Date:
1700-1750
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 painted decoration; buff-colored body with white glaze; scene of structure with flag on island; spider's head corner motifs.
Object Number:
670
Gallery Label:
According to an inscription on the reverse, this tile came from the Philipse mansion in Yonkers, NY.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1750
eMuseum Object ID:
25310
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Tile
Classification:
Date:
1640-1670
Medium:
Earthenware
Dimensions:
Overall: 5 1/8 x 5 1/8 x 1/2 in. ( 13 x 13 x 1.3 cm )
Description:
Tin-glazed earthenware tile with reddish-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-hole in lower right and upper left corner.
Object Number:
Z.787
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1670
eMuseum Object ID:
25208
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Tile
Classification:
Date:
1640-1670
Medium:
Earthenware
Dimensions:
Overall: 5 x 6 3/8 x 1/2 in. ( 12.7 x 16.2 x 1.3 cm )
Description:
Tin-glazed earthenware tile with reddish-colored body, white glaze, and painted polychrome decoration; tulip growing from bulb in diamond-shaped frame with saw-tooth edge and curls at each point, fleur-de-lis corner motifs; pin-hole in lower left corner.
Object Number:
Z.786
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1670
eMuseum Object ID:
25207
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Tile
Classification:
Date:
1640-1670
Medium:
Earthenware
Dimensions:
Overall: 5 1/8 x 5 x 1/2 in. ( 13 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 at lower left and upper right corner.
Object Number:
Z.790
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1670
eMuseum Object ID:
24896
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
1957.153[dup]
Classification:
Medium:
porcelain
Dimensions:
10 x 8 x 6 in.
Object Number:
1957.153[dup]
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
0
eMuseum Object ID:
24821
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Small bowl
Classification:
Date:
1830-1860
Medium:
Glass
Dimensions:
Overall: 1 1/8 x 4 1/2 in. ( 2.9 x 11.4 cm )
Description:
Colorless pressed lead glass dish with faint amethyst tinge; circular form with edge consisting of one large scallop alternating with two smaller scallops; in well, two swords thrust through emblem at center, flanked by symmetrical abstract motifs on stippled ground; pattern of trapezoidal shapes flanked by scrolls, stars, and hearts, on stippled ground.
Object Number:
1957.156
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1860
eMuseum Object ID:
24640
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Jug
Classification:
Date:
1843-1891
Medium:
Stoneware
Dimensions:
Overall: 15 1/2 x 8 1/2 x 8 1/2 in. ( 39.4 x 21.6 x 21.6 cm )
Description:
Cylindrical salt-glaze stoneware jug with angled shoulders, strap handle, and rounded collar; flower painted in cobalt oxide below stamped maker's mark.
Credit Line:
Gift of James R. Canny
Object Number:
1947.254
Marks:
stamped: "N. CLARK, JR. ATHENS, N. Y."; "2"
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1891
eMuseum Object ID:
24615
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.
Description:
Tin-glazed earthenware tile with purple, blue, and white painted decoration; buff-colored body with pin-holes at upper left and lower right; octagonal frame containing blue-and-white scene of a shepherd in a landscape, on spattered purple ground with three-petal flower corner motifs; upper right corner broken off.
Credit Line:
Gift of S. Alofsen, 1864
Object Number:
INV.8792a
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:
24539
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Compote
Classification:
Date:
1800-1820
Medium:
Porcelain
Description:
Imari design
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. Clarence S. Fiske
Object Number:
1950.36j
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1820
eMuseum Object ID:
24495
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Charger
Collections:
Classification:
Date:
1689-1705
Medium:
Earthenware
Dimensions:
Overall: 1 3/4 x 12 in. ( 4.4 x 30.5 cm )
Description:
Tin-glazed earthenware charger with King William III seated beneath a canopy with initials "KW" to side painted in purple, yellow, and blue center with purple and yellow drapery-like motifs on brim; charger has buff-colored earthenware body with foot ring with opaque white tin-glaze on obverse, clear lead-glaze on reverse; three stilt marks on obverse.
Credit Line:
Gift of Katharine Prentis Murphy
Object Number:
1951.597
Marks:
painted: on obverse; "KW"
Gallery Label:
King William III ruled England from 1689 to 1702.
Bibliography:
Denker, Ellen Paul. "Collector' legacies." The Magazine Antiques 167 (2005): 176-180.
Krohn, Deborah, Peter Miller, and Marybeth De Filippis, eds., "Dutch New York Between East and West: The World of Margrieta van Varick." New York: Bard Graduate Center, New-York Historical Society, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2009, p. 209
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1705
eMuseum Object ID:
24468
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
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