Rookwood Pottery Cincinnati Landmark Tiles
Item Details
A collection of Rookwood Pottery Cincinnati landmark tiles. The group includes a 1st Edition Commemorative “Aronoff” Tile. This tile celebrates the twentieth anniversary of the Cincinnati Aronoff Center for the Arts, featuring the building set in relief on a alkaline crackle aegean green glaze. The inscription on the back is attributed to the architect Cesar Pelli and reads “A building can be seen as a finite work of art, but first it must be seen as a piece of a larger and more important whole that is a city.” Marked with the Rookwood flame logo, “1st Edition”, date mark “MMXV” and mold number “10295” to the verso. The second tile is a Cincinnati Fountain Square tile featuring downtown Cincinnati’s Tyler Davidson Fountain. The piece is from Rookwood’s Commemorative Collection and showcases a high-gloss green glaze titled as Emerald Isle Alkaline. To the verso, it reads, “‘Ode’ Dedication of the Tyler Davidson Fountain October 6, 1871 May Our Whole lives, while here, Be like this fountain near, As pure, as brightly clear, As blest their flow. -C.J. Cist”. It is also marked with number “10009”. The third tile is a Cincinnati Roebling Bridge tile featuring Cincinnati’s Roebling Bridge. The piece is from Rookwood’s Commemorative Collection and showcases a high-gloss Emerald Isle alkaline green glaze. To the verso, it reads, “Roebling Bridge ‘No avenue in any of the large capitals of Europe could now compare in beauty of grandeur with that long vista which would be presented by the line of Vine Street on the one side, continued in a straight course by Scott Street on the opposite shore, and connected across the river through the imposing arches of the great towers of the suspension bridge.’ – John A. Roebling”. It is also marked with number “10039”.
| Materials | Ceramic |
Condition
- tiles have crackle glaze.
Dimensions
- measured as a group for shipping.
Item #
18CIN058-091
