Slab made of terracotta and bricks

Source catalog description

This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

A terracotta slab architectural element. The slab is roughly rectangular shaped and is composed of three layers: a black painted, fired, red clay slab face; an aggregate layer of crushed bricks and cement; and a layer of bricks covered with thick grayish-white mortar. A corner of the slab is missing. The mortar surface shows impressions of four missing bricks. The black slab covers most of the second layer but the second layer is partially exposed towards one of the narrow ends of the slab. Black paint drip marks run down one side of the long sides of the slab. Some black paint has flaked off the slab’s surface and there is a small drop of white paint in one corner. The crushed brick layer is composed of a variety of different bricks.

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