Collection Highlights
Coach
ca. 1770
1911.25
Wood, iron, paint
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Tile
Object name
Tile
Date
1750-1780
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 painted blue and white decoration; buff-colored body with bluish-white glaze; elaborate border with diapering and foliate scrolls (the "Louis XV border with diaper corners") frames octagonal landscape scene with two gothic buidldings separated by a bridge with a ship's mast in the background; right edge chipped.
Credit Line
Gift of Mrs. Bayard Verplank
Object Number
Z.773x
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.
