Square decorative ceramic fireplace tile; white painted background with blue painted scene of a figure with horns (Moses?) standing behind the tablets of the ten commandments, beside a tree with a staff in his right hand.
tile
earthenware
ceramic tile
ceramic tile
tin glaze
Bible
Delft
Bible
Delft
Tin Glazed
Tile, Fireplace
1/2/3/4/5/6/7/8/9/10 (on the face of two tablets within the painted picture)
Original To Cooper-Frost-Austin House (Cambridge, Mass.),
Unknown
5 x 5 x 1/4 (HxWxD) (inches)
Museum Accession
1918.1278
Cambridge (Middlesex county, Massachusetts)
Massachusetts (United States)
Probably Delft (South Holland, Netherlands)
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Title Tile Accession Number 1918.1283
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Title Tile Accession Number 1918.1273
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Title Tile Accession Number 1918.1276
Title Tile Accession Number 1918.1277
Title Tile Accession Number 1918.1281
Title Tile Accession Number 1918.1284
Title Tile Accession Number 1918.1285
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Title Tile Accession Number 1918.1289
Title Tile Accession Number 1918.1291
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Title Tile Accession Number 1950.538
Title Tile Accession Number 1982.224
Title Tile Accession Number 1933.508.1
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Title Tile Accession Number 1933.508.7
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Title Tile Accession Number 1933.513
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