Description:
White tile decorated with a pink, brown, and green lady slipper over the hand-printed inscription, "Cypripedium Acaule." The center back of the tile is inscribed in black: "Norman / Ceramics / Old / Deerfield / "Pink Lady Slipper" and the top is impressed "3 51," "MOSIAC," "1211" and the bottom, "LC3" and "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.
Subjects:
Pottery; Enamel and enameling; glaze (coating by location); polychrome Link to share this object record:
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