Pantile made by an enslaved person from Boone Hall Plantation

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 pantile made by an enslaved person from Boone Hall Plantation in Charleston, South Carolina. The pantile is constructed from terracotta and coated in a black glaze. The tile has an S-shaped profile, mainly concave with a smaller convex lip on one side. The decorative side of the tile is almost entirely coated in a shiny black glaze. There is a V-shaped glaze line at the top of the tile leaving a portion of the terracotta exposed. There is a loss at the top right corner of the tile and at the diagonally opposed corner. The Old Slave Mart Museum catalog number, [R654], is handwritten in black ink over a small rectangular patch of white painted at the top right side of the decorative side of the tile. The back of the tile is terracotta red with a large black rectangular discoloration at the top right and a small rectangular loss at the top.

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