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Collection Type

  • Architecture

Date

1825-1850

GUSN

GUSN-45237

Description

Square, blue painted, decorative ceramic tile mounted in a wooden frame with metal corners with legs and brown paper backing; painted scene of figures next to a tree inside a circle (Mary Magdelen washing the feet of Christ).

Details

Descriptive Terms

tile
earthenware
ceramic tile
earthenware
Christ
Tile

Inscription

? (handwritten)

Associated Building

Original To Cooper-Frost-Austin House (Cambridge, Mass.),

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

5 1/2 x 5 1/2 x 1 (HxWxD) (inches)

Credit Line

Estate of Leona Flanders

Accession Number

1950.538

Places

Malden (Middlesex county, Massachusetts)
Cambridge (Middlesex county, Massachusetts)
Minnesota (United States)
Massachusetts (United States)
Delft (Cottonwood county, Minnesota)

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