SPANISH BOUQUET DOT TILE

Object/Artifact

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Homestead Museum

Name/Title

SPANISH BOUQUET DOT TILE

Entry/Object ID

2001.113.19.1

Description

Color: Black; Brown; Blue; Green; Red A hand-pressed dot tile in the blackline form called Spanish Bouquet, manufactured by Diana Watson's Native Tile & Ceramics, 2001. At the center is a green cross with a red circle at the middle. The cross is within a brown flower with four petals outlined in black. At the center of the tile's edges are brown buds flanked by green leaves. At the four corners are blue flowers with red cores. All of the colors are matted except for the glazed black and red, and all are against a tan background. A white label at the bottom of the back has the name and address of the manufacturer. The manufacturer's catalog number for the artifact is 394. The object is in mint condition.

Lexicon

LOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials

Building materials, Ceramics

Search Terms

Three-dimensional, Tiles, Native Tile & Ceramics, Tiles--California, Decoration and ornament

Legacy Lexicon

Object Name

Tiles