Rookwood Art Pottery Cincinnati Music Hall Tile

Item Details

A Rookwood art pottery square-shaped tile featuring Cincinnati’s Music Hall. The piece is from Rookwood’s Commemorative Collection and showcases a high-gloss Emerald Isle alkaline green glaze. To the verso, it reads, ‘Music Hall ’The opening of a new Music Hall, built expressly for great popular concerts..and which in size, architecture, elegance and completeness is unequaled in America, is an event worthing to be celebrated…’ -Cincinnati Daily Gazette, May 11, 1878’. It is also marked with number ’10047.

Condition

- tile features an alkaline crackle glaze

Dimensions

Item #

17CIN409-058