BIG FISH TILE PANEL--TOP ROW, SECOND FROM LEFT

Object/Artifact

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Homestead Museum

Name/Title

BIG FISH TILE PANEL--TOP ROW, SECOND FROM LEFT

Entry/Object ID

99.35.12.2

Description

BIG FISH TILE PANEL--TOP ROW, SECOND FROM LEFT Color: Brown; Blue; Yellow; Pink A square tile from the "Big Fish" panel, produced as an artist's model by RTK Studios, ca. 1990s. The piece, made from the black-line technique, has a brown border at the top. Most of the rest of the piece is of the sky with some slight variation in glaze colors to distinguish clouds from the sky. At the bottom is a pale blue area for the ocean and rising from the bottom to the top at the center is a mast and two small sails for a ship that is in the tiles of the middle row. A fisherman's head is at the lower left. This is the top row, second from the left tile in the 15-piece panel, which was in preparation for the final product installed along the Via Casino in Avalon, Catalina Island. With little indication of wear or damage, the object is in good condition.

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Tile

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Surface Elements

Nomenclature Class

Building Components

Nomenclature Category

Category 01: Built Environment Objects

LOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials

Tiles

Search Terms

Three-dimensional, Tile, RTK Studios