Decorative Tile Tile

Columbia Encaustic Tile, Co

1889–1903

stoneware

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

A rectangular molded white clay tile decorated with a scallop shell, beaded swag, ribbons, and crossed branches, with underglaze pink and blue and overglaze gold. Rectangular molded tile of white clay; reverse has row of nine alternating depressed and raised bars. Face of tile decorated with scallop shell suspended from beaded swag, framed in ribbons at top, crossed branches bottom. Horizontal tile edges in relief. Underglaze pink, blue. Overglaze gold.