. Annual report for the year ended June 30 .... United States National Museum. EXHIBITS 39. English decorative tiles, late 19tli century, part of a collection given by E. Stanley Wires, and installed in the new tile room. of the late 19th century include the sculptured relief tiles made by the Low Art Tile Company of Chelsea, Mass. The installation was designed by exhibits specialist Holland O. Hower and exhibits designer Mrs. Sigrid Dvorak. It employs overhead flat, square panels of differing sizes and colors to reflect the shapes of the tiles themselves and break the height of the high-ceili
. Annual report for the year ended June 30 .... United States National Museum. EXHIBITS 39. English decorative tiles, late 19tli century, part of a collection given by E. Stanley Wires, and installed in the new tile room. of the late 19th century include the sculptured relief tiles made by the Low Art Tile Company of Chelsea, Mass. The installation was designed by exhibits specialist Holland O. Hower and exhibits designer Mrs. Sigrid Dvorak. It employs overhead flat, square panels of differing sizes and colors to reflect the shapes of the tiles themselves and break the height of the high-ceilinged room. On January 5, 1959, a new exhibit, "Historic Pottery from Holland," was opened to the public in a room adjoining the hall of ever3"day life in early America, in the Natural History building. This exhibit comprises selected materials from the collection of more than 600 examples of Dutch and Rhenish ceramics presented to the Smith- sonian Institution by the Honorable Wiley T. Buchanan, Jr., Chief of Protocol, and Mrs. Buchanan. All the materials were excavated at Dutch sites and assembled by P. Weers of Vooburg, Holland. This exhibit illustrates the range of household ceramics used in Holland from the Roman and Merovingian periods to the beginning of the 19th centmy. It is especially rich in the common Dutch earthen- wares of the 17th-century kitchens and courtA^ards, such as those depicted in the great paintings of Jan Steen and Pieter de Hooch. The exhibit also illustrates some of the origins of ceramics exported to America during the period of early settlement and which influenced American ceramics of the 17th century. The installation was designed by Rolland O. Hower and exhibits designer Constance Costigan under the technical supervision of acting curator C. Malcolm Watkins in. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations
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