Pictorial antique tile sets and panels
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An assembled Aesthetic Movement tile panel centered on nine wisteria tiles by the Trent Tile Company — trailing flower clusters, buds, and leafing branches in high relief, the most sought-after botanical motif of the period. Around them sit four rosette medallion tiles and seven slim border tiles by the United States Encaustic Tile Company —…
A rare figural panel produced circa 1890 by the American Encaustic Tile Company, surviving as a complete eighteen-inch, one-piece architectural tile — a format so fragile it was never likely to endure. The surface is finished in a luminous cocoa-rose-sepia glaze, warm and atmospheric, with gentle pooling in the recesses. A winged putto drifts through…
A young Roman soldier reclines on a tessellated mosaic ground in deep rose and oxblood majolica, his helmet and shield set at his feet. This is a complete, intact figural presentation panel as it left the American Encaustic Tiling Company factory in Zanesville, Ohio more than a hundred and twenty years ago — center tile,…
An ivory-and-pale-blue ground washed through with amber and umber that pool dark in the hollows and break light over the raised fruit; a fine crackle covers the whole surface. A full cluster of grapes spills over a grape leaf, with a pear at the base and a tendril curling off the vine, the relief standing…
A matched pair of allegorical figural panels from the Kensington Art Tile Company of Newport, Kentucky, each built from three glazed relief tiles that stack vertically to form a single standing figure. GUERRE (War): a draped classical woman holding a crested helmet, a sword across her lap. VICTOIRE (Victory): a soldier in scale armor cradling…
Complete AETCO majolica fireplace surround with swallows, cattails, and lotus in rich oxblood glaze. Zanesville, Ohio, c.1890. Extraordinary relief work.
Faience in the true sense — the hand-glazed, satin-surfaced art tile Mosaic built its name on, color laid in by hand and pooled within the modeled outlines. A soft, stony blue-grey ground deepens to a streaked cobalt panel, and against it a single baby chick glows in warm mustard-gold, drawn in heavy dark relief lines…
Deep hand-laid color, the true faience Mosaic was known for — a rich cobalt and near-black ground broken by a checkered tan-and-brown border, with a nude putto astride a goat left in creamy white lifting forward off the dark field. The figure-on-goat traditionally represents Capricorn, the goat of the zodiac — a Renaissance-revival scene composed…
A rare soft turquoise-aquamarine that leans blue, pooling deepest in the fluted channels and lifting pale across the raised ribbon and bead; a fine crazing runs the whole surface. Neoclassical in vocabulary: a ribbon threads in flowing S-curves through graduated beads over a fluted ground, framed with egg-and-dart and beading. Providential Tile Works of Trenton,…
Trent Tile Co., Trenton, New Jersey, c. 1885–1900. This is not a lot of tiles — it is a fragment of American industrial art history, and it comes with the tool that made it possible. A set of glazed production tiles in Trent’s signature mustard-amber majolica glaze, each 6×6 in, impressed TRENT TILE / TRENTON,…
A complete figural fireplace surround by the Trent Tile Company of Trenton, New Jersey, modeled in deep high relief and finished in a warm tobacco-brown and olive transmutation glaze. Each tile is stamped TRENT on the reverse. Reclaimed from a mansion in Chattanooga, Tennessee. The figural designs are documented works of the sculptor William Wood…
A bearded old man fills the field in high relief, worked deep enough to throw real shadow through the hair and beard — some have identified the face as Michelangelo. A soft mottled transmutation glaze runs tan and blush into deeper brown, with a heavy all-over crackle. Marked TRENT on the reverse. Trent Tile Company,…
A spectacular hand-decorated pictorial tile mural by the Mosaic Tile Company of Zanesville, Ohio, depicting four flamingos in a tropical waterscape. Bold mid-century draftsmanship in pink, teal, cream, and black. Includes original red field tiles. A rare surviving example of American pictorial tile work at its most ambitious. Professionally conserved — three weeks of careful mastic removal by hand. Free shipping.
A whimsical and rare pictorial tile panel depicting a frog’s wedding amid lotus blossoms and cattails — offered with its original geometric hearth in gold, amber, and brown. Zanesville, Ohio craftsmanship. Hand-painted. Free shipping.
A haunting, soulful portrait hand-painted across two glazed ceramic tiles in a rustic wooden frame. A stylized woman in rose gazes outward, her shadow rendered in blue and black trailing behind her — improvisational yet intentional brushwork suggestive of postwar Mediterranean modernism, echoing Modigliani’s elongated forms. Approx. 8 x 13 in including frame; gentle wear…