$375
Framed without glazing measuring 12 x 12 x 1 inches.
Good overall condition. Calendar tile: slightly warped, with tight hairlines to all edges (one extends to front of tile to calendar cut-out). Tile is inscribed "And Time Rolls along Today Just as of old." Grecian tile: .25 inch chip to reverse, and dark crazing lines.
Calendar tile measures: 6 w x 6 h inches. Framed birds tile measures: 7.5 w x 7.75 h inches. Grecian tile measures: 4 w x 16 h inches. Shepherd tile measures: 6 w x 17.75 h inches. Impressed manufacturer's mark to verso of shepherd tile ‘American Encaustic Tiling Co. Limited Works. Zanesville O. New York’. Impressed manufacturer's mark to verso of grecian tile ‘Chelsea Keramic Art Works, Robertson & Sons H’. Carved signature to lower right of calendar tile ‘HCR’. Sold with a J. & J.G. Low tile, marked.
c. 1885
glazed ceramic, terracotta
Auctioneer:
Rago
Date:
2020-08-21
