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Tile

Maker: American Encaustic Tile Company Ltd., 1875-1935
Medium: Glazed earthenware
Place Manufactured: Zanesville, Ohio, USA
Dates: ca. 1880
Dimensions: 3 x 3 in. (7.6 x 7.6 cm)
Markings: Impressed on back: "THE AMERICAN / ENCAUSTIC TILE CO. /" LIMITED" / (indecipherable number)"
Signature: no signature
Inscriptions: no inscriptions
Collections: Decorative Arts
Museum Location: This item is on view in Luce Visible Storage and Study Center, 5th Floor
Accession Number: 86.17.2
Credit Line: Anonymous gift
Image: Overall, 86.17.2_bw_SL1.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph

Catalogue Description: Tile, glazed earthenware. Tile, square with encaustic stylized decoration in white, cream and dark brown. Six-petalled central flower surrounded by six leaves, hexafoil; this surrounded by circle with radiating crockets in tour corners of tile. Condition: Surface scratched. Chip in one corner. Old mortar.

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- Encaustic
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