Collection Highlights
Flags on 57th Street, Winter of 1918
1918
1984.68
Oil on canvas
Support the New-York Historical Society
Help us present groundbreaking exhibitions and develop educational programs about our nation's history for more than 200,000 schoolchildren annually.
Museum Collections
Luce Center
Tile
Object name
Tile
Date
1750-1780
Medium
Earthenware
Dimensions
Overall: 2 1/2 x 5 x 1/4 in. ( 6.4 x 12.7 x 0.6 cm )
Description
Fragment of tin-glazed earthenware tile with painted blue and white decoration; buff-colored body with bluish-white glaze; elaborate border with feathered quarter-flowers in the corners and elaborate foliate scrolls (the "Louis XV border") frames octagonal landscape scene with ship in background and tower in forground; bottom half of tile gone.
Credit Line
Gift of Mrs. Bayard Verplank
Object Number
Z.773y
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.
