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Clay tile

Clay tile

Title

Clay tile

Description

Clay tile, with a slightly incised figure of a squatting male figure shaping a large clay vessel. The figure fills the tile space and upper body muscles are displayed. It is possible the tile was titled ""Thinker"" due to a slight resemblance to Rodin's sculpture.
400 Pixels Per Inch
8 Bits Per Sample

Creator

Petersen, Christian, 1885-1961.

Source

RS 26/02/52

Date

n.d.
2004-08-11
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26-2-52.CPArtifacts.2004-R017.01.jpg

Rights

U.S. and international copyright laws protect this digital image. Commercial use or distribution of the image is not permitted without prior permission of the copyright holder. For permission to use the digital image, please contact Iowa State University Library Special Collections at archives@iastate.edu For reproductions see: http://www.add.lib.iastate.edu/spcl/services/photfees.html

Relation

Christian Petersen Papers, 1922 - [ongoing]; http://www.add.lib.iastate.edu/spcl/arch/rgrp/26-2-52.html

Format

Tile; 11.4x11.4x1.3 cm
Unfired clay tile with incised figure
3 Samples Per Pixel

Type

Image
Image

Identifier

26-2-52.CPArtifacts.2004-R017.01
https://digitalcollections.lib.iastate.edu/

Collection