Tile wall facing
Unknown Maker
Horizontal rectangle. Thirty tiles wide and twenty-three tiles high with opening for fireplace eleven tiles wide and ten high. Foliage arabesques disposed about three vertical axes from which are emphazised by urns at center and right, and at left by the figure of a standing woman carrying an infant on her arm and accompanied by two children.
Credit: Gift of William Randolph Hearst
c. 1725
Tin-glazed earthenware, underglaze
1926-43-4-131
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