Name/Title
The Creation of EveEntry/Object ID
2003.11.1Description
Early-20th-c. ceramic tile made of colored and glazed Bucks County red clay.
Henry Chapman Mercer (1856-1930) was a major figure in the Arts and Crafts movement in America. Archaeologist, historian, collector and ceramist, he established the Moravian Pottery and Tile Works in Doylestown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania in the closing years of the nineteenth century.
The image of the Creation of Eve (Gn. 2:21-22) shows God the Creator calling forth Eve from Adam's side as he sleeps in a fruit-bearing tree from which the Four Rivers of Paradise flow. This is one of Mercer's earliest tiles and was reproduced from a plaster cast of one of the Salerno Ivories, the largest unified series of ivory carvings preserved from the pre-Gothic Middle Ages and preserved in the Museo del Duomo at Salerno (Italy). Mercer obtained the cast of the Creation of Eve in 1900 from the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.Artwork Details
Medium
Clay, Ceramic glazeMade/Created
Artist Information
Artist
Moravian Tile WorksAttribution
Studio ofDate made
circa 1901Time Period
20th CenturyDimensions
Height
3-7/8 inWidth
3-7/8 inInterpretative Labels
Label Type
Credit LineLabel
Gift of Carmen R. Croce, '71