AMERICAN ANTI-SEMITIC GLAZED CERAMIC TILE.

AUCTION 55 | Thursday, June 21st, 2012 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts Autograph Letters, Graphic & Ceremonial Art

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Lot 406

AMERICAN ANTI-SEMITIC GLAZED CERAMIC TILE.

circa 1881

Est: $1,200 - $1,800

PRICE REALIZED $1,300

The tile uses the Christian expression of praise “Never Enough” in the context here, of degrading the money-hungry Jew. See William Benton Museum of Art Exhibition Catalogue (1979): American Decorative Tiles 1870-1930, p. 31, no. 87.