Description:
One tile of 6 tiles making a tile picture, large, industrial-made, square white refined stoneware tile, painted in overglaze enamel colors of brown, green, and gray; depicts a dogwood branch diagonal across the tile, on the reverse of the tile, there are cast marks, "MOSAIC" in an oval, "751" in a rectangle of four blocks, "D182" in a rectangle of four blocks, also "MADE IN U.S.A." The Mosaic Tile Company was started by Herman C. Mueller (1854-1941), a German-born artist and scuplture and chemist Karl Langenbeck who left the American Encaustic Tiling Company in 1894 in Zanesville, Ohio (later a second location in Matawan, New Jersey). Many types of plain and ornamental tiles were made until 1959; the company stopped production in 1967. This object was probably made by Marcia Gaylord Norman, the wife of Edward "Ted" Norman, who worked as potters at the Bloody Brook Tavern in Deerfield, Massachusetts, in the 1930s - 1950's. Marcia specialized in the production of tiles and eventually illlustrated many books on birds and wildlife of Cape Cod. These tiles were found in the Allen House and may have been purchased and used by the Flynts.
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