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California Clay Products Company
Fireplace Surround1923-1932

Not on view
Ceramic sculpture of a U-shaped portal made from individual moss-green glazed blocks, each carved with dense low-relief Mesoamerican-style glyphs and figural imagery, displayed on a gray pedestal
Manufacturer
California Clay Products Company
CALCO; United States, California, South Gate, 1923-1932
Title
Fireplace Surround
Date Made
1923-1932
Medium
Earthenware
Dimensions
44 × 70 × 1 1/2 in. (111.76 × 177.8 × 3.81 cm)
Credit Line
Decorative Arts and Design Council Acquisition Fund
Accession Number
M.2017.81.1-.39
Classification
Architecture
Collecting Area
Decorative Arts and Design
Selected Bibliography
  • Kaplan, Wendy, ed. Found in Translation: Design in California and Mexico, 1915-1985. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Munich: DelMonico Books-Prestel, 2017.
Copyright
© California Clay Products Co.

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