Lot 145: ISAAC BROOME GIRL & PARROT TILE

Antique American Trent Tile by Isaac Broome. Girl and Parrot. Good condition with overall crazing and small fleabites to 1 edge. Manufactured by Trent Tile Works of Trenton, NJ. Measures 6"x6"x1/2". Weight An American sculptor, ceramic modeler and teacher, Isaac Broome (1836-1922) was educated at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia, where he was elected an Academician in 1860 and taught in the Life and Antique department from 1860 to 1863. In 1854 he assisted Thomas Crawford with the statues on the pediment of the Senate wing of the US Capitol in Washington, DC, and tried unsuccessfully to establish a firm for architectural terracotta and garden ornaments in Pittsburgh and New York. Beginning in 1875, Broome was employed as a modeler by Trenton's Ott & Brewer pottery. The parian porcelain sculpture he created for their display at the Centennial International Exhibition of 1876 in Philadelphia won medals for ceramic arts. Following his success at the Exhibition and at the Exposition Universelle of 1878 in Paris, for which he was appointed USA Special Commissioner, he was active as a teacher and lecturer and was keenly interested in educational, political and industrial reforms. He also continued as a modeler for potteries in Ohio and Trenton, including the Trent Tile Co. and the Providential Tile Co. in Trenton, producing major work as late as 1917, when he modeled a parian portrait bust of Walter Scott Lenox for the Lenox Company.

Good condition with overall crazing and small fleabites to 1 edge.