#TilesOnTuesday! Hoof marks of lambs or kids on a tile found in Pfongau/Austria
Tiles with imprints can be found all across the Roman empire, since tiles were laid out to dry in the open air ahead of firing, where animals could step on them.
Museum Salzburg

#RomanArchaeology #archaeology

#TilesOnTuesday with these beautiful #medieval examples displayed in Malmesbury Abbey

#TilesOnTuesday:
Tile with Image of #Phoenix
Iran, probably Takht-i Sulaymän, late 13th c.
Stonepaste; modeled, underglaze painted in blue & turquoise, luster-painted on opaque white ground
Met 12.49.4: https://metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/446207
"Ilkhanid period artists readily adopted imagery from Chinese iconography...this image of a soaring phoenix with crested head & elaborate trailing plumage exemplifies the adaptation of Chinese imagery by Persian artists."
#PersianArt

#TilesOnTuesday + #TwoForTuesday: another pair from the ongoing search for all the #animals from the 420 original 1906 #Moravian tile #mosaics by Henry Chapman #Mercer on the #Pennsylvania Capitol floor: 95 + 115 “URSUS” (Black #Bear)!
#ArtsAndCraftsMovement

For #InsectWeek on #TilesOnTuesday + #TwoForTuesday: 82 & 92 #Grasshopper
From the ongoing search for all the #animals from the 420 original 1906 Moravian tile #mosaics by Henry Chapman Mercer on the #Pennsylvania Capitol floor.
#InsectsInArt #ArtsAndCraftsMovement

For #TilesOnTuesday, celebrating my 1st Odonata spotting of the year w/ these #Moravian #dragonflies!
1 “DRAGONFLY” #100 of 420 original Moravian tile floor mosaics by Henry Chapman #Mercer at the #Pennsylvania Capitol, 1906
2 “Dragonfly” brocade tile at Mercer Museum and Fonthill Castle, likely also early 20th c.

For #TilesOnTuesday + a belated #SaveTheRhinoDay: “2-horned African #rhinoceros ‘PINOKEPOC’ on Nilotic #mosaic of the flooding of the river Nile in #AncientEgypt, from Sanctuary of Fortuna Primigenia at Praeneste, c. 100 BCE, Palestrina Museo Archeologico”
https://flickr.com/photos/41523983@N08/43926887845

For #TilesOnTuesday + #InverteFest: 100. #Deagonfly, from the ongoing search for all the #animals from the 420 original 1906 #Moravian tile #mosaics by Henry Chapman #Mercer on the #Pennsylvania Capitol floor.
#InsectsInArt #ArtsAndCraftsMovement

For #TilesOnTuesday: “Islamic Wall Tile” (Persian 8-pointed star tile), Iran, Sultanabad, c. 1250-1350; fritware with tin glaze & luster decoration, 4 13/16 in. (12.3 cm), on display at @walters_museum.
So who’s that spotted quadruped? 🤔
#PersianArt #IslamicArt

For either a belated #MosaicMonday or an early #TilesOnTuesday: 121. “Loon”
from the ongoing search for all the #animals of the 420 original 1906 #Moravian tile #mosaics by Henry Chapman #Mercer on the #Pennsylvania Capitol floor.

For #TilesOnTuesday + #TwoForTuesday: yet another of the animal-themed compositions from the 420 original 1906 #Moravian tile #mosaics by Henry Chapman #Mercer on the #Pennsylvania Capitol floor: 390. #Chicken (s)!

For #TilesOnTuesday: 140. “Squirrel” (Eastern Grey #Squirrel ) from the ongoing search for all the #animals from the 420 original 1906 #Moravian tile #mosaics by Henry Chapman #Mercer on the #Pennsylvania Capitol floor. There is another mosaic of a Flying Squirrel somewhere too…

For #TilesOnTuesday: “#Fox” 399 from the ongoing search for all the animals from the 420 original 1906 #Moravian tile #mosaics by Henry Chapman #Mercer on the #Pennsylvania Capitol floor.

For #TilesOnTuesday + #TwoForTuesday + TurtleTuesday: another pair from the 420 original 1906 #Moravian tile #mosaics by Henry Chapman #Mercer on the #PA Capitol floor: Snapping Turtle 133 & 186. (There are at least 9 more #turtle #tiles in this building I haven’t gotten to yet…)

For #TilesOnTuesday: “Dolphin” and “Whale” #Dutch tile panels, c. 1600-1625, tin-glazed earthenware with polychrome decoration, made in Rotterdam. On display at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

RT @DrNWillburger
A child's footprint in time: I can vividly imagine a child walking over this #Roman tile laid out to dry before firing some 1,800 years ago!
Found in Carnuntum, Austria.

Photo: https://www.online.landessammlungen-noe.at/objects/1306843/plattenziegel-mit-fusohlenabdruck?ctx=9efaae6fdb56abccc0b1299e8b2563c715ee98e5&idx=29

#TilesOnTuesday #RomanArchaeology

A child's footprint in time: I can vividly imagine a child walking over this #Roman tile laid out to dry before firing some 1,800 years ago!
Found in Carnuntum, Austria.

Photo: https://www.online.landessammlungen-noe.at/objects/1306843/plattenziegel-mit-fusohlenabdruck?ctx=9efaae6fdb56abccc0b1299e8b2563c715ee98e5&idx=29

#TilesOnTuesday #RomanArchaeology
#archaeology

Covering #TilesOnTuesday, #TurtleTuesday, #TwoForTuesday, and more #YearOfTheRabbit all at once with this one! 😎
Tile with two #rabbits, two #snakes, and a #turtle, #Iran, 19th century. From a larger panel illustrating al-Qazwini's The Wonders of Creation. Louvre/Quai Branly Museum collection: https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl010319024

For #TilesOnTuesday: It’s still #YearOfTheTiger for a bit longer, so here is a polychrome glazed tile depicting a tiger amid foliage, #Safavid, probably made in #Isfahan (#Iran), late 17th - early 18th century. Photographed on display at Penn Museum. More info: https://www.penn.museum/collections/object/345984

Hallo @tazgezwitscher@twitter.com . Eure Ahnen ?

RT @AlisonFisk@twitter.com

A dog’s paw print on a Roman clay tile. About 2,000 years ago, a dog made its mark for posterity by wandering across a wet tile which was lying out to dry before firing. From Richborough Roman fort. Photo my own.

#TilesonTuesday
#Archaeology

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/AlisonFisk/status/1607710446018088960