Collection Highlights
Mount Rushmore National Memorial
ca. 1941
1987.16
Plaster with purplish red-brown stipple finish
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Museum Collections
Decorative Arts
Tile
Object name
Tile
Date
1750-1775
Medium
Earthenware
Dimensions
Overall: 5 x 3 1/4 x 1/4 in. ( 12.7 x 8.3 x 0.6 cm )
Description
Fragment of tin-glazed earthenware tile with painted blue and white decoration; buff-colored body with white glaze; circular rondel with landscape scene with man chopping wood; ox-head corner motifs (tile same as Z.773m and o); left and right edges cut away.
Credit Line
Gift of Mrs. Bayard Verplank
Object Number
Z.773n
Gallery Label
These tiles are from a fireplace in the Judge Joseph I. Jackson House at the corner of Jackson Ave. and Main St., Fishkill, NY. The house, which at one time was called the "Colonial Inn," was still standing in 1953.
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
