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Tile
Mueller Mosaic Companyca. 1910
Brooklyn Museum
Brooklyn, New York City, United States
Terra cotta tile with matte green glaze, square-shaped over-glaze painted ducks. Ducks are designed in diagonal formation from top left corner to center. Each fowl has a white body with gray outstretched wings, green and white heads.Condition: Good; some of paper label missing and two words missing or partially missing. Edges of the tile appear slightly irregular; however these irregular surfaces are not chips but rather coarse particles of grog.
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Details
- Title: Tile
- Creator Nationality: 0
- Date Created: ca. 1910
- Location Created: Trenton, New Jersey, USA
- Type: Ceramic
- Rights: H. Randolph Lever Fund
- External Link: http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/116563/Tile
- Medium: Glazed terra-cotta
- Signed: no signature
- Markings: The paper label adhered to tile back reads: (with each entry within four flags) "FAIENCE /M /M /CO" and "MUELLER MOSAIC CO. /TRENTON, N.J." and "SAMPLE OF /HAND-MADE /FAIENCE TILE /Des. No. 4x4 Col. 170/ . An excellent Material For Exterior /or Interior Mural Decoration /Made in standard --------d color /this tile is frost (missing)". In pencil (script) is "Galassi" (top) and indistinct script (bottom).
- Maker: Mueller Mosaic Company
- Inscribed: no inscriptions
- Dimensions: 4 x 4 x 5/8 in. (10.2 x 10.2 x 1.6 cm)
- Collection: Decorative Arts
- Accession number: 1989.23.3
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