Tiles from the Hackstoff House, Middletown, Connecticut Maker: Unknown

1750

American Decorative Arts

On view, 1st floor, American Decorative Arts before 1900
Medium

Tin-glazed earthenware

Dimensions

A: 5 × 5 1/8 in. (12.7 × 13.02 cm)
B: 4 7/8 × 5 1/8 in. (12.38 × 13.02 cm)

Credit Line

Mabel Brady Garvan Collection

Accession Number

1984.62.2a-b

Geography

Made in North, Germany, or United Kingdom

Culture

Northern German or British

Period

18th century

Classification

Architectural Elements

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Provenance
Taken from the Hackstoff house, Middletown, Conn., Dr. I.W. Lyon in 1879. Irving W. Lyon (1840–1896), Hartford, Conn.; by descent to his son Irving P. Lyon (1870–1944), Buffalo, New York; sold to Francis P. Garvan (1875–1937), New York, 1929; given to Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn. 1931
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Inscriptions

On B: "Tile from the / Hackstoff house. / Middletown. Conn. / built 1758-60. / by Philip Mortimer. In my notebook / of Pottery +c [et cetera] page 14. / IWL" written in ink on a paper label axxied to the reverse; "21." painted in black in the reverse; "21" written in ink on two paper labels with canted corners and red borders with white dots, each affixed to the reverse

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