Tiles from a bathroom of the Worsham-Rockefeller House
Returned to lender
This work of art was on loan to the museum and has since been returned to its lender.Arabella Worsham’s bedroom on the second floor connected directly to the dressing room on one side and to a water closet, or bathroom, on the other. These Moorish-style ceramic tiles lined the walls and evoked the vogue for Turkish baths. Replicating the patterns and palette of Isnik tiles from the seventeenth century, they were nonetheless contemporary, produced in Gien, France.
Artwork Details
- Title: Tiles from a bathroom of the Worsham-Rockefeller House
- Maker: George A. Schastey & Co. (American, New York, 1873–1897)
- Maker: George A. Schastey (American (born Germany), Merseburg 1839–1894 at sea)
- Date: ca. 1880
- Geography: (none assigned) Gien, France
- Culture: America
- Medium: Glazed earthenware
- Dimensions: Assembled: 15 13/16 × 15 13/16 × 3/8 in. (40.2 × 40.1 × 1 cm)
- Credit Line: Gift of John Davison Rockefeller, Jr., Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution
- Curatorial Department: The American Wing