original antique american victorian era interior residential fireplace figural tiles depicting the profiles of young children. the allover crazed ceramic tiles are of the dust-pressed molded intaglio type, where the image is created by cutting, carving or engraving into a flat surface, as opposed to a relief, where the image is what is left when the background has been cut away to leave the image above the background. the hard to find and highly collectible set of tiles were manufactured by the american encaustic tile company, zanesville, oh. the tiles measure 6 x 6 inches. priced for the set.