Collection Highlights
Slave shackles
ca. 1866
1921.20
Steel
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Museum Collections
Decorative Arts
Tile
Object name
Tile
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.
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
