Tile from Dunn House, Newport, Rhode Island | Yale University Art Gallery

1750–1800

Medium: Tin-glazed earthenware
Dimensions: 5 × 5 × 1 7/16 in. (12.7 × 12.7 × 3.6 cm)
Credit Line: Mabel Brady Garvan Collection
Accession Number: 1931.2215
Geography: Made in The Netherlands
Culture: Probably Dutch
Period: 18th century
Classification: Architectural Elements
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Provenance

Elizabeth Dunn until at least by 1879. Taken from the Dunn house, Newport, R.I. by Mr. Mauran, Newport, R.I. sold to Mr. A.R Crittenden as agent for 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

Bibliography

Pearls to Pyramids British Visual Culture and the Levant 1600-1830, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale Center for British Art, 2008), 15

Object copyright

No Copyright - United States

Additional information

Inscriptions

“110,” written in black ink on sticker with red cantered edges on verso\r\n“1931.2215,” written in red paint on verso\r\n“110,” written in yellow ink on red sticker with red cantered edges on verso\r\n\r\n

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