The pottery and porcelain of the United States; an historical review of American ceramic art from the earliest times to the present day (1893)
Barber, Edwin Atlee, 1851-1916 · New York, London, G.P. Putnam's Sons · leaf 372
over a floor space of seven feet square, underlying the exhibit of this factory at the Crystal Palace Exhibition which was held in New York in that year. These tiles were about ten inches square and made by the wet-clay process. The body was white, inlaid with variegated colors, the designs… … 173.-S0ME OF THE First Fancy examples of these early at- American Tiles. ^ Hyzer & Lewellen. tempts. Their first efTortS were directed to the manufacture of encaustic tiles of geometrical shapes, — square, diamond, and triangular, — with natural and artificially-colored American clays, mainly buff,…
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