Tile (Ottoman Empire (present day Syria))
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Tile (Ottoman Empire (present day Syria))
This is a tile. It is dated late 16th–early 17th century and we acquired it in 1951. Its medium is tin-glazed earthenware, underglaze decoration. It is a part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts department.
De Forest collected tiles on his travels in the Middle East, following Frederic Church’s example. This tile represents the type de Forest sent home for interior decoration projects—often for fireplace surrounds. Church used his own tiles to decorate a fireplace surround at Olana that featured a carved wood mantel from de Forest’s Ahmedabad studio.
This object was featured in our Object of the Week series in a post titled Tiles of Old Revisited.
This object was
donated by
Mrs. Russell C. Veit.
It is credited Gift of Mrs. Russell C. Veit.
- Mantilla (France)
- silk.
- Gift of Mrs. George Nichols from the collection of her mother, Mrs. J.P. Morgan.
- 1939-66-45
- Screen (India)
- teakwood.
- Gift of Fernanda Munn Kellogg.
- 1972-79-2
- Kremlin Service Dessert Plate
- gilt and glazed hard-paste porcelain.
- Museum purchase from General Acquisitions Endowment Fund.
- 2005-6-1
Our curators have highlighted 7 objects that are related to this one. Here are three of them, selected at random:
- Tile (England), 1882–88
- glazed earthenware.
- Museum purchase through gift of Georgiana L. McClellan.
- 1953-104-6
- Plate (France), 1710–30
- tin-glazed thrown earthenware.
- Gift of Mrs. George T. Bliss.
- 1907-23-4
- Heatwave Radiator, 2007
- molded polyconcrete (polyester concrete), aluminum.
- Gift of Jaga, N.V..
- 2008-13-1-a/c
Its dimensions are
26.8 x 25.9 x 2.5 cm (10 9/16 x 10 3/16 x 1 in. )
Cite this object as
Tile (Ottoman Empire (present day Syria)); tin-glazed earthenware, underglaze decoration; 26.8 x 25.9 x 2.5 cm (10 9/16 x 10 3/16 x 1 in. ); Gift of Mrs. Russell C. Veit; 1951-66-9
