Lycett tile
date: label: date made
content: 1896
name: label: maker
content: Lycett, Edward
notes: label: Description
content: About Faience Manufacturing Company:
label: Description
content: The Faience Manufacturing Company was an early commercial art pottery established in 1880 in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, New York. Initially, the factory produced cream-colored earthenware with underglaze painting in the style of the fashionable French faience and Limoges pottery; faience, the white tin-glazed earthenware used in France, inspired the company name. Four years later, the firm hired the well-known English potter Edward Lycett as decorator and director, and he introduced a new clay body and hard porcelain glaze. The Faience wares became known for their Near Eastern forms, eccentric handles, and elaborate jewel-like ornament; exotic imagery of Japanese birds and flowers was common. The larger pieces, often requiring more than one firing, resulted in their elevated status as expensive one-of-a-kind art objects. However, the pottery also produced smaller objects such as trays, perfume vases, and boxes. Lycett left the firm in 1890 when it was sold, and the firm closed in 1891.
label: Description
content: About the Object:
label: Description
content: An iridescent glazed tile with carved geometric shapes and flower design in yellow and red in an elaborate gilded frame. Titled, "Precious Murrhine" because its made from soapstone slab. Use of underglaze teal. Signed by Edward Lycett on bottom.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Georgia, Atlanta
topic: label: Subject
content: Art Pottery
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content: Home and Community Life: Ceramics and Glass
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Edward Lycett
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CE.96613
label: catalog number
content: 96613
label: accession number
content: 31784
objectType: label: Object Name
content: tile
label: Object Type
content: tile
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: black (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: blue (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: green (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: polychrome (overall surface decoration color name)
label: Physical Description
content: stone (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: framed: 6 1/8 in x 10 1/4 in; x 15.5575 cm x 26.035 cm
label: Measurements
content: tile: 2 7/8 in x 7 3/8 in; x 7.3025 cm x 18.7325 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 1/8 in x 10 1/4 in x 6 1/8 in; 2.8575 cm x 26.035 cm x 15.5575 cm