SPANISH TILE COMPANY GREEN, RED AND YELLOW FLORAL DESIGN TILE

Object/Artifact

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Homestead Museum

Name/Title

SPANISH TILE COMPANY GREEN, RED AND YELLOW FLORAL DESIGN TILE

Entry/Object ID

98.27.1.4

Description

SPANISH TILE COMPANY GREEN, RED AND YELLOW FLORAL DESIGN TILE Color: Green; red; yellow An encaustic concrete floor tile from the Spanish Tile Company, ca. 1929. The piece has a red background on which is a floral design with a six petals in yellow connected by a centered design with six pointed petals in green and a six-sided flower-like section in green and a yellow circle in the middle. Incised on the reverse is: "LOS ANGELES / CAL / SPANISH TILE CO." With part of the surface discolored and some chips on the edges, the piece 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

Search Terms

Three-dimensional, Tile, Spanish Tile Company, Flooring, Tile--Culver City (Calif.), Tiles--Culver City (Calif.), Tiles in interior decoration