Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Pressed terracotta with raised ornament and blue glaze. A) has arch with heart and flowers in rayed circle. B) has arch enclosing stylized flowers and letters SF. A) and D) have cartouche with date 1756 and top inscription: Las dich das bese nicht (Be not overcome by evil.) Modeled after an eighteenth century Pennsylvania German cast iron stove designs.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Maker
- Moravian Pottery and Tile Works, Doylestown, Pennsylvania, USA, founded 1898
- Date
- 1937
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase from the Misses Hewitt Fund
- Medium
- Pressed and glazed earthenware
- Dimensions
- H x W x D (GH measurements): 50.8 × 48.3 × 5.1 cm (20 × 19 × 2 in.)
- Type
- tiles
- Decorative Arts
- Four tiles forming square
